Sentences with phrase «sweet sensing cells»

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Whenever a sweet substance touches the tongue, our brains senses that this is food and it is time for our body to produce insulin to take that food and bring it into our cells for the use of energy.

Taste buds, each a collection of 50 to 100 cells, sense whether a food is sweet, sour, bitter, salty or umami (savory).

These taste cells sense the slight bitterness of the rye seeds, the sweet edge of the Thousand Island dressing and the savory umami of the beef.

These cells contain the receptors that interact with chemicals in foods to allow us to sense sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami.

By tangling up bitter - and sweet - sensing cells on the tongues of mice, researchers have teased apart how the taste system wires itself.