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

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.

Scientists have discovered what could be one of the most bitter substances known to date. The potent chemical compound comes from a “bitter bracket” mushroom and has helped shine a light on how humans ...

“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 ...

The T2R38 gene is one of our 20 or so bitter taste receptors, controlling our ability to detect glucosinolates, a family of bitter compounds found in foods such as brassica vegetables – Brussels ...

Your bitter taste receptors become less sensitive to moderate bitterness, making formerly challenging foods more enjoyable. Simultaneously, your sweet and salt receptors become more sensitive, ...

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 ...

The bitter taste of certain drugs is a barrier to taking some medications as prescribed, especially for people who are particularly sensitive to bitter taste. A team found that the diabetes drug ...