People tend to want to have sugar because of the taste receptors that send signals to the brain. They say people get a large amount of their calories from sugar each day. In order to test whether or not people want sugar for more than just the taste, they gave animals a sugary drink and a non sugary drink even though they don’t have the taste buds for sugar. This suggests that your brain and body can detect sugar even if you can’t taste it.
Key Takeaways:
- Sugar is one of the most common food additives and can be addictive.
- Because we need sugar for energy, we have evolved specific taste receptors for it in the mouth.
- However, studies from mice suggest that part of the gut can also recognize sugar.
“This suggests that the body may recognize sugar in another area, perhaps further down the digestive pathway.”
Read more: http://dunyanews.tv/en/Health/543796-Can-our-bodies-detect-sugar-without-tasting-it
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