Through saliva, says Jianshe Chen, a food scientist at Zhejiang Gongshang University in Hangzhou, China, “we detect chemical information of food: the flavor, the taste.” ...

Dr. Anwesha Sarkar, a food scientist at the UK’s University of Leeds, told Gorski the fat in milk combines with your saliva to create a gooey layer in your mouth. That can cover up the tartness of ...

Analysis revealed that just 1 gram of chewing gum released approximately 100 microplastics on average, with 1 gram of some ...

Humans have waterier saliva than great apes. The overall protein content in human saliva was less than half of the amount found in chimpanzee, gorilla and macaque saliva. Human saliva is more adept at ...

Saliva impacts how different foods taste. Silke Woweries via Getty Images At first glance, saliva seems like pretty boring stuff, merely a convenient way to moisten our food. But the reality is ...