New products that aim to bring flavor to bland low-sodium cooking are on their way. Under the brand name Erekisoruto, a coinage from the Japanese pronunciations of “electric” and “salt,” they use a ...

The gustatory system enables animals to detect and discriminate among foods, to select nutritious diets, and to initiate, sustain and terminate ingestion for the purpose of maintaining energy balance.

- the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth ...

THE natures of energy transformations between animals and their environments are poorly understood1 and in particular the mechanisms of olfaction and gustation remain unknown2. Here I report evidence ...