Bitter gourd (karela) helps balances blood sugar, detoxes the liver, boosts immunity, supports skin health, aids digestion, ...

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

One specific kind of acid reflux, laryngopharyngeal reflux, can cause lesser-known symptoms like coughing, hoarseness, and a ...

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.

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...