Sentences with phrase «sweet receptors on»

When the sweet receptors on our tongues get stimulated, this means one message to our bodies: sugar is incoming.
Like stevia, aspartame stimulates sweet receptors on the taste buds without containing any sugar.

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Stevia is as much as 400 times sweeter than sugar, but that signal to the taste receptors comes on all at once and lingers for a while, and in that lingering note there is a metallic or licorice - like aftertaste that has proven surprisingly difficult to deal with.
Still, Zuker was adamant: Knock out either of the two subunits on the protein receptor he identified and laboratory mice lose all sense of sweet, regardless of which compounds they're given.
18 Straight edge: The miracle fruit (Synsepalum dulcificum), native to West Africa, contains a glycoprotein called miraculin that binds to taste receptors on the tongue and makes sour foods taste sweet.
Artificial sweeteners taste sweet because their chemical structure activates receptors on the tongue for sweet taste.
But these chocolate bars can taste somewhat bitter, and are sometimes not very enjoyable depending on your bitter taste receptors and preferences (though it is possible to train your taste buds to appreciate things that taste less sweet).
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