Alan C. Spector, James C. Smith and Glee R. Hollander Radiation-induced taste aversion has been suggested to possibly play a role in the dietary difficulties observed in some radiotherapy patients. In ...

There are foods we like, their foods we could eat based on situations and their foods we cannot stand. This adverse reaction to certain foods when encountering food due to adverse post ingestion ...

Growing up in my grandma's house when I was younger always meant being able to savor her rich Mexican dishes, many of which were covered in spicy homemade salsas that I couldn't stand at first but ...

When chicken eggs injected with 20-25 mg of emetine dihydrochloride were distributed along 3 different 0.7-1.0-km transects, mammalian predators that had been feeding on untreated eggs developed a ...

Taste-recognition memory — the ability to identify a taste and relate it to past consequences of its ingestion — is extremely important from an evolutionary point of view. There are two forms of taste ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American After coexisting for thousands of years, ...

Video: Our reaction to unpleasant actions could be linked to our natural aversion to bitter tastes (Courtesy of University of Toronto) People’s visceral reaction to incest or betrayal by others could ...

GLP-1, a glucagon-like peptide-1 secreted in the small intestine, promotes insulin production in the pancreas, thereby lowering blood sugar levels. Drugs that enhance this GLP-1, such as Wegovy and ...