Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team of designers and industrial architects and a psychologist at the University of Campania in Italy have tested some of the ways that the surrounding environment can affect the taste of food or drink. The group presented at the 24th International Congress of Acoustics, a conference outlining their preliminary results …
Is this gum a vitamin or a candy? This can be difficult to tell, especially for children. Since 2019, there has been an increase in the number of children under the age of 4 who have been taken to emergency rooms for ingesting gummy multivitamins and over-the-counter sleeping pills like melatonin. That’s why the Food …
Take a pill (the legal kind, of course) and you’ll likely end up with an unpleasant, bitter taste in your mouth. As trivial as it may seem, this is a pretty big problem in medicine, but one that exists for good reasons. Why do medicines taste so bad? As the American Chemical Society explains, most …
Caffeine is found in most soft drinks on the shelves of your local supermarket. This is not too surprising, considering that many people rely on this substance for extra energy throughout the day. But, according to the Coca-Cola Company, the caffeine in its soft drink has less to do with stimulation and more to do …