The
quest for flavor modulators began in 1996, when Charles Zuker realized that the
prevailing literature on taste biology was potentially wrong. Human can sense
five types of flavor: sweet, bitter, umami (sometimes called savory), salty and
sour. Most of us in school learned that tongue is partitioned into regions that
each detect one type of flavor. But work of Charles Zuker showed that taste buds
across the tongue and mouth contain small groups of cells that enable each bud
to detect every flavor... full story
Have
you ever noticed it's getting more difficult for you to focus on reading lengthy
texts? Can you concentrate hard on the text you read online or is your attention
constantly diverted by interesting links? Do you stop reading to reply to a new
e-mail message, which keeps blinking at the bottom of your screen? Just remember
how many articles or e-mails you found intriguing and saved, saying to yourself
you will read them later. Now think about how many of them you actually read?
If the answer is few, this article is aimed at you... full
story
The
quest for flavor modulators began in 1996, when Charles Zuker realized that the
prevailing literature on taste biology was potentially wrong. Human can sense
five types of flavor: sweet, bitter, umami (sometimes called savory), salty and
sour. Most of us in school learned that tongue is partitioned into regions that
each detect one type of flavor. But work of Charles Zuker showed that taste buds
across the tongue and mouth contain small groups of cells that enable each bud
to detect every flavor... 
Have
you ever noticed it's getting more difficult for you to focus on reading lengthy
texts? Can you concentrate hard on the text you read online or is your attention
constantly diverted by interesting links? Do you stop reading to reply to a new
e-mail message, which keeps blinking at the bottom of your screen? Just remember
how many articles or e-mails you found intriguing and saved, saying to yourself
you will read them later. Now think about how many of them you actually read?
If the answer is few, this article is aimed at you...