Various factors can affect our taste buds and change the way we perceive taste, including aging, illness, and more. In this article, we will explore the factors that can contribute to a change in your ...

Taste is one of your basic senses. It helps you evaluate food and drinks so you can determine what’s safe to eat. It also prepares your body to digest food. Taste, like other senses, helped our ...

Loss or alteration of taste (dysgeusia) is a common symptom of COVID. It’s also a side effect of several illnesses and medications, including Paxlovid, the new antiviral medication to treat COVID ...

“You don’t know what you’re missing till it’s gone” is a truism that certainly applies to taste. It took a pandemic for taste to get attention. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine and is part of National Geographic’s Future of Food initiative, a special five-year project that seeks to show how what we ...