“…Other than the basic tastes including sweetness, umami, bitterness, sourness, and saltiness, where G‐protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) for the first three tastes and ion channels for the last two tastes are the physiological mechanisms (Roper & Chaudhari, 2017), the molecular mechanisms of astringency are still being investigated and do not have a definitive theory (García‐Estévez, María Ramos‐Pineda, & Teresa Escribano‐Bailón, 2018). Importantly, this unique sensation could be triggered by a large variety of natural foods, including red wines (Watrelot, Heymann, & Waterhouse, 2020), green tea (Zhuang et al., 2020), coffee (Barbosa, Scholz, Kitzberger, & Benassi, 2019; Hu et al., 2020), soybean (Ueno, Kawaguchi, Oshikiri, Liu, & Shimada, 2019), various berries (Ciesarová et al., 2020; Kelanne et al., 2019), and so on. From a molecular perspective, the major astringent compounds in natural foods could be classified into phenols, proteins, multivalent metallic salts, organic and mineral acids, and dehydrating agents (such as acetone, glycerin, and ethanol) (Bajec & Pickering, 2008; Joslyn & Goldstein, 1964; Zhang et al., 2020).…”