Between the renaissance of home baking and 'anosmia', the loss of smell and taste with COVID, the last year had a rather diverse impact on the nature of taste. In fact, we're surrounded by surprising tastes. Join in for the 'science ramble' this month to discover how a simple variant of water which is ubiquitous in small concentrations, called heavy water, has surprised scientist with a sweet tooth!

Further resources

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The original study, published in Communications Biology: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-01964-y

A blog post about this paper: http://blog.pnas.org/2021/04/heavy-water-tastes-sweeter/