Some food items are chewy, some are crispy, and others just melt inside your mouth. The impact of texture is rarely mentioned but it plays an important role in our eating habits. We care about ...

Rotting meat has a pretty distinctive (and disgusting) odor, so if you break open the container and smell something foul, ...

Since the only difference in the food was the texture, Komarov suspected an intact taste organ also allows a larva to detect that delicious not-too-hard, not-too-soft rotting fruit texture.

Why maggots love feeding on rotten food Maggots love to feed on decaying fruit. New research explains how they found this out and the implications for having texture be such a big deal.

As the saying goes, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but (discounting that vinegar is actually a great way to trap fruit flies), there’s an even better method: smell like rotting meat.

Some plants stink of rotting meat or dung, which helps them attract flies for pollination. How plants make the carrion stench, which is usually produced by bacteria feasting on decaying corpses ...

Vulture bees regurgitate some of the meat they consume, storing it in their nests where it serves as food for young bees. Some of the acid-loving gut bacteria end up in this food reserve, Roubik says.

They found an expired food facility license and court documents showing the store’s management owed their grocery suppliers more than $400,000. “I’m happy we kicked them out,” Patel said.