Crunchy or Mushy? Maggots Have a Secret Way to Taste Texture
Scientists have discovered that fruit fly larvae can actually "taste" food texture, thanks to specialized neurons in their ...
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Why maggots love the texture of decaying fruit
A study led by Nikita Komarov and Simon Sprecher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, has discovered neurons in the ...
The role of decaying fruit in assessing food texture
The researchers established that maggots will not eat food that is too hard or too soft, but if it is just ...
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Maggots associate the texture of a food with how tasty it is, research shows
how to tweak the texture of foods, healthy or otherwise, to make them more palatable. The research is published in PLOS Biology. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) Transcript ...
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Why maggots love the texture of decaying fruit
Published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology on January 30, the study found that the fly peripheral taste organ has neurons with texture-tasting mechanoreceptors that derive their ability ...
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Maggots associate the texture of a food with how tasty it is, research shows
Some creatures — like maggots — love to feed on decaying fruit. New research shows that they associate the texture of food with how tasty it is, too. So how did researchers figure that out?