The light, sparkly fizz of champagne owes its taste to the tongue’s sense of sour. New studies in mice reveal how the tongue tastes carbonation, solving an old puzzle of why some mountain climbers get the “champagne blues.”
FIZZ-TASTIC Studies in mice have shown the importance of an enzyme on certain taste cells in tasting carbonation.
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