List of taste articles

Professor Miyashita of Meiji University and specially appointed associate professor Nakamura of the University of Tokyo receive Ig Nobel Prize, changing the taste of chopsticks with electric current

 Professor Yoshiaki Miyashita of Meiji University's School of Integrated Mathematics and the University of Tokyo will receive the 2023 Ig Nobel Prize in Nutrition, which is awarded to unique and thought-provoking research.

The University of Tokyo expects to reduce salt by more than 2% by utilizing umami from Japan

 A research group led by Project Assistant Professor Shuhei Nomura of the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo has found that umami, which originated in Japan, has 1 […]

Okayama University and others discovered the action of chloride ions in salt, which is slightly sweet in thin salt water

 A research group at the Okayama University Graduate School, in collaboration with the Tokyo Dental College Junior College, has discovered that chloride ions, one of the constituents of salt, contribute to sweetness and umami […]

Meiji University develops a taste and appearance converter for milk to crab cream croquette

 Professor Yoshiaki Miyashita of Meiji University has developed a device that changes the taste and appearance of food and drink.In the experiment, you can safely experience milk even if you are allergic to shellfish […]

Meiji University develops a system that transfers the same taste and salty taste in real time even if they are far away

 Professor Yoshiaki Miyashita and Miyu Kobayashi (1st year master's student of the Graduate School of Advanced Mathematical Sciences) of the Yoshiaki Miyashita Laboratory, Faculty of Comprehensive Science, Meiji University have the same concentration even remotely […]

Chiba University's rating experiment that the strength to feel the taste changes depending on the color of the drink container

 Kazuya Okada (2019 graduate) and Professor Makoto Ichikawa of Chiba University said that the color of the container has the effect of emphasizing or weakening the specific taste of the beverage […].

University of Tokyo discovers related gene region, which is weaker to drink as it likes sweets

 Hisanori Kato, a specially appointed professor at the University of Tokyo, and his colleagues collaborated with GeneQuest Co., Ltd. on the taste of sweetness and alcohol metabolism peculiar to the East Asian population […]

Sharing "taste" information with remote areas without risk of infection Meiji University Miyashita Laboratory

 Professor Yoshiaki Miyashita of the Department of Advanced Media Science, Faculty of Comprehensive Mathematics, Meiji University has developed a display that can express any taste.People and food and drink […]