A supertaster is a person who tastes certain flavors and foods more strongly than other people. The human tongue is wrapped in taste buds (fungiform papillae). The small, mushroom-shaped bumps are ...

It’s not quite a superpower, but about a quarter of humans experience taste more intensely – and they’re known as supertasters. Whether you’re a supertaster is directly related to how many papillae ...

Do certain physiological traits make some wine critics better than others? In a three-part series this week, Mike Steinberger examines the physiology of the oenophile. In Part I, he examined the ...

Taylor Tasting Tours owner, Don Ward, handed me a tiny tab of paper. “You’re going to put this on your tongue and you tell me what you taste and feel, what your sensation is from this.” Ward, who ...

Do certain physiological traits make some wine critics better than others? In a three-part series this week, Mike Steinberger examines the physiology of the oenophile. On Wednesday, he examined the ...

I work as a beer sommelier. I'm also female. And one constant irritant is when men tell me that because I'm a woman I must be a "supertaster," that my sex means I have a much better sense of taste ...

November 10, 2017 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Many people love knocking back a few hop-tastic brews like Indian Pale Ales after a long week, but not ...

Being a “supertaster” may sound like a foodie’s dream come true, but in reality, it’s no picnic. Coffee and alcohol are unpalatable – along with tomatoes, Parmesan cheese, strawberries, condiments and ...

This is 6-n-propylthiouracil, otherwise known as PROP. It once had a conventional medical purpose. Now it’s being shoved into people’s mouths to see if they’re genetically gifted (or cursed) with the ...

We all know Superman, right? In comic books and on television, in movies and even in a Broadway musical, he’s the tights-and-cape-sporting superhero who came to us from the planet Krypton, arriving on ...