Arugula serves up a peppery bite in salads, pastas, and everything in between, but it can also pack a bitter punch. Here's how to address that.

Is your salad bitter? Do your harvested cucumbers taste off? Here's why your cucumbers may be bitter, from home or the store, ...

“Bitter taste is a signal for danger. So it is quite logical that people who have heightened sensitivity based on their genes to bitter taste may also have higher sensitivity to other signals of ...

For some cucumber eaters, the bitter taste can be accompanied by a digestive discomfort known as a burp. Some of the newer cultivars of cucumbers do not have the bitter compound and, thus, no burp.

One key to animal survival is bitter taste -- -the better to avoid ingesting potentially harmful poisons or foods. The evolution of bitter taste has been a hot topic amongst evolutionary ...

Why is my coffee so bitter? Only 10-15 percent of coffee's bitterness comes from caffeine. Indeed, if the bitterness of your coffee is unacceptable, the problem may well be low-grade beans or a ...

High bitter-taste sensitivity is associated with a significantly increased risk of cancer in older British women, according to researchers who conducted a unique study of 5,500 women whose diet ...