Are you Team Spice, or do you run from anything remotely hot in your food? The intensity of your reaction may be all in your ...

Our expectations can greatly influence the way we experience the world. The best-known examples of this are placebo and ...

Scandinavians have historically eaten less spicy food than most other cultures, said Erin Swenson-Klatt, food and handcraft ...

Saputara, located in the arms of the Western Ghats, stands as Gujarat's only hill station. It offers a much-needed, lush ...

Like it hot? Prove it at Spicy Village, where regulars get it "extra extra hot" and newcomers are cautioned with a laugh.

Your taste preferences are like a fingerprint ... Reframe negative associations: If you dislike spicy food, try to approach it with curiosity rather than aversion, Albers said: “This shift ...

The study focused on the experience of eating spicy food, and examined two distinct ... confined to the part of the brain that deals with taste, but the actual situation is far more complicated.

depending on how we anticipate the taste.” In the study, published Tuesday in the journal PLOS Biology, Chinese researchers scanned the brains of 24 people who liked spicy foods and 22 who did not.

Your taste preferences are like a fingerprint, totally unique.” My family would be thrilled if I were to transform from spice wimp into spice lover because we could then all enjoy foods with a bit ...

In other words, I may find spicy food overwhelming simply because I expect ... depending on how we anticipate the taste.” ...