• Professor in Sensory and Food Science & Head of the Centre for Advanced Sensory Science, Deakin University
Taste acts as the gatekeeper of ingestion. Photo and Share CC/Flickr

Tasty treat: how we showed fat to be the sixth taste

Humans are thought to be able to taste five qualities but technological advances combined with sophisticated research means we can now test for more subtle tastes we haven’t known about. In a paper we…
A hedonic response working in concert with our primary tastes encourages consumption. amanda tipton

Recipe for disaster: creating a food supply to suit the appetite

OBESE NATION: It’s time to admit it - Australia is becoming an obese nation. This series looks at how this has happened and, more importantly, what we can do to stop the obesity epidemic. Today we look…

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