- Scientists have created an electronic tongue, or an E-tongue, which acts like human tongues which have a sense of taste | It can identify four tastes – saltiness, sourness, astringency, and sweetness – in just a tiny bit of food, and uses deep-learning technology to understand taste. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.3c09684 10 comments science
- 1 in 8 grown-ups love extreme tartness, finds a new cross-cultural study that demonstrated there is a subset of “sour likers” who enjoy exceptionally sour foods. Previous studies have shown that 1 in 3 children enjoy intensely sour things such as candies like Warheads. https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/sour-patch-adults-1-8-grown-ups-love-extreme-tartness-study-shows/ 312 comments science