15 May What makes eating so satisfying?
Scientists are learning to enhance our enjoyment of food by analysing exactly how we experience it. So how do they deconstruct the multisensory interplay involved?...
16 Aug Salt: Essential for life, deadly at high doses, and confusing to neuroscientists
Salt reduction is grabbing major headlines this year. The topic is fraught with scientific controversy, but one aspect of the debate that's apparently not getting due attention is a true understanding of how humans detect saltiness. Salt has not yielded so easily to the techniques...
29 Jun Granny is right: Tomatoes are not like they used to be
Would you rather have tomatoes that look good, or taste good? Most people, no doubt, would swear that they prefer taste to looks when it comes to buying fruit and vegetables. But that is not how they behave. Years of retailing experience...
25 May The scientific search for the essence of a tasty tomato
Scientists are several steps closer to restoring flavour to the supermarket tomato, a once-magnificent fruit turned by commercial pressures into a juicy orb of gustatory cardboard....
04 Nov The sweet smell of chocolate: sweat, cabbage and beef
Chocolate is one of the most popular foods in the world, but the details of its taste and aroma profiles have long eluded scientists. However, new science is revealing why cocoa's potent sensual properties have been so difficult to pin down. ...
28 Apr Why we love some foods and hate others
Black coffee. Hot peppers. Truffles. Oysters. The world is full of polarizing flavours and foods, beloved by many, despised by just as many. Why is that? Scientists have untangled some — but not nearly all — of the mysteries behind our love and hatred of...
09 Jun Simba uncovers creative South African flavours
Simba has announced top four flavours in the What's Your Lekker Flavour? competition and launched the chips. This great marketing idea has clearly engaged many thousands of consumer and uncovered some funky, creative and truly South African flavour profiles.
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