Your brain has a built-in mechanism designed to prevent you from eating too much of any single food, but modern eating habits have found ways to outsmart this ancient protection system.

Exploding Taste Buds. It was 2020, and I was on my phone — more than usual. ... over the years I’ve learned to layer flavors and pack an array of ingredients into a single dish.

The TAS1R2 protein in our taste buds contains a pocket that grabs onto sweet molecules, which could help food scientists design better-tasting artificial sweeteners without calories.

The graph below shows the total number of publications each year in Taste Bud Biology and Function. References [1] Glia-like taste cells mediate an intercellular mode of peripheral sweet adaptation .

A single soda contains more sugar than our ancestors might have consumed in a week. ... The taste bud reset button. The good news is that your taste buds are incredibly adaptable.