Our enjoyment of food is intimately linked with our enjoyment of life - whether it's that first lick of ice-cream on holiday, or the umami hit from a burger. But our sense of taste isn't something ...

Just like our taste in music, TV and culture, taste in food differs from person to person. But why does the same food bring about such different responses in different people? And the all ...

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 ...

Exploring the taste of different foods helps us to decide which foods we like or dislike. Certain foods can have different flavours and textures when they are raw to when they are cooked.