People who find Brussels sprouts unbearably bitter may also find a health upside to their keen sense of taste. The ability to taste such bitterness may be linked with an increased capacity to fight ...

Scientists divide people into three categories: supertasters, medium tasters and nontasters. Supertasters have a much denser distribution of taste buds than medium and nontasters. So supertasters ...

Most people know that consuming too much sodium can increase your risk of high blood pressure, heart attacks and strokes. But did you know that laying off the salt shaker is harder for some than ...

Some people swear they can taste the tiniest sprinkle of salt or sense when a recipe has one ingredient slightly out of balance. If any of that sounds familiar, you might have something surprising ...

People who are especially sensitive to bitter compounds in broccoli and other foods tend to be thinner than others. A Rutgers University study of nearly 50 women in their 40s, found that supertasters ...

Are your taste buds to blame for mindless overeating? They may be contributing more than you think. Scientists divide people into three categories: supertasters, medium tasters and nontasters.

One of the biggest mysteries of the novel coronavirus is why it affects some people more severely than others. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

A study in JAMA Network Open found that people with the fewest number of taste buds, called non tasters, were significantly more likely to get COVID-19. Dreamstime TNS A symptom of early COVID-19 is ...

It sounds like a superpower, one anybody would be overjoyed to have. Sweets would be sweeter. Spices would be spicier. Bitters would be bitter-er. Eating, one of life's most essential pleasures, would ...

A "supertaster" is someone who tastes things more intensely than most individuals. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Dr. Linda Bartoshuk of Yale University. Supertasters are especially sensitive to a ...

It sounds like a superpower, one anybody would be overjoyed to have. Sweets would be sweeter. Spices would be spicier. Bitters would be bitter-er. Eating, one of life's most essential pleasures, would ...