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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Kids learn which foods are good for you and which are deadly from their parents. Some animals however, have to go through a process of trial and error when it comes ...

GLP-1, a glucagon-like peptide-1 secreted in the small intestine, promotes insulin production in the pancreas, thereby ...

In animals, the taste system is important not only for detecting nutritious foods but also as a first line of defense against ingesting noxious stimuli 1. Many animals thus have innate taste-driven ...

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 ...

CANCER is survivable if caught early, but close attention must be paid to warning signs to facilitate this. According to early research, an aversion to certain foods could be the body signalling ...

Many children reject medicines due to an aversion to bitter taste. As such, bitterness presents a key obstacle to the acceptance and effectiveness of beneficial drugs by children worldwide. A new ...