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Neurogastronomy and Virtual Reality: How Light, Sound, and Digital Environments Can Trick the Brain into Changing the Taste of Food

Exploring How AR Glasses, Immersive Soundscapes, and Multisensory Design Can Make Food Taste Sweeter, Saltier, or More Flavorful Without Changing a Single Ingredient When people think about flavor, they usually imagine something happening on the tongue. Sugar tastes sweet, salt tastes salty, lemons taste sour, and coffee tastes bitter. It seems obvious that the ingredients […]

Molecular Architects: How the Digitalization of Receptors Is Making It Possible to Encode and Transmit Taste

The Science Behind Digitizing Flavor and Aroma to Recreate Rare Sensory Experiences Anywhere in the World For centuries, humanity has learned to digitize information in increasingly sophisticated ways. We transformed written language into digital text, converted sound into streaming audio, and turned images into billions of pixels. More recently, virtual reality has enabled us to […]