Food preferences
How a child's food preferences begin in the wombTests have shown that what a woman eats during her pregnancy is easily detectable in her amniotic fluid, and the foetus develops a taste for familiar flavoursIt may be a survival mechanism that's come back ...
- The Last Bite You Take Affects Your Food Preferences
Ever wondered what makes you revisit some of your favourite foods again? A new research holds that your memory registers the most latest thing experienced by your senses. In case of foods, the last bite ...
- The Geography of Taste: How Our Food Preferences are Formed
We might think we love food from far-flung lands, but most of it is tailored to suit our tastes. If you could only ever eat one cuisine again, which would you choose?Italian, then Indian, followed ...
- Why do Some People Love 'Earthy' Flavours in Food?
Do they, deep down, just want to eat dirt - indeed certain people do crave soil - or is there something more subtle going on?I am all for earthy flavours. Just as there is a ...
- What if We Could Train Our Brain to Prefer Healthy Foods?
Our brain functions somewhat like a computer. It is like a storehouse of knowledge with a highly established network of information. As matter of fact we know that the brain is also responsible for our ...
- Gandhi Jayanti Special: Mahatma Gandhi's Experiments with Food
Did you know - The dietary experiments of Mahatma Gandhi reached a point wherein he stopped eating all spices and only consumed boiled or raw food?
- Hunger Can Make Any Food Taste Better. Here?s Why
as per the recent finding by the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Japan, food tastes sweeter when we are starving, but bitter food also becomes more tolerable.
- A Study Reveals How Your Genetics May Affect The Way You Taste Food
Do you find karela (bitter gourd), amla (Indian gooseberry) and methi (fenugreek leaves) to be exceptionally bitter? If yes, then your genes may be responsible for this. According to a new study, a specific gene ...
- Food and Mood: What You Eat Affects Your Mood
A good meal can comfort you and bring back pleasant memories. But are there any superfoods that are guaranteed to put a smile on your face?In Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, the narrator depicts the ...
- Charles Spence: The Food Scientist Changing the Way We Eat
An Oxford professor's research into what affects flavour, from who we eat with to background noise, has influenced food-industry giants and top chefs alike. Now his new book brings food science to the home cook, ...
