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Sweetness

Sweetness is a basic taste most commonly perceived when eating foods rich in sugar. Sweet tastes are generally regarded as pleasurable. In addition to sugars like sucrose, many other chemical compounds are sweet, including aldehydes, ketones, and sugar alcohols. Some are sweet at very low concentrations, allowing their use as non-caloric sugar…

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Origin and evolution

Examples of sweet substances

Sweetness modifiers

The sweetness receptor

Sweetness combined with fat and salt

Sweet receptor pathway

Cognition

Historical theories

MPA theory

Culture

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Sweetness

Nodes125
Edges124
Triples97
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.016
Components1

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Sweetness

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related to Historical theories · 12
Sweetness → Based, Early, Georg Cohn, German, He, In, Myers, Oertly, One, The, They, With
related to The sweetness receptor · 12
Sweetness → Columbia University, EM, Experiments, G-protein, GI, Human, It, T1R2, T1R3, TAS1R2, TAS1R3, The
related to Sweetness modifiers · 10
Sweetness → Chinese, Commercially, Domino Sugar, Gymnema, Gymnemic, Indian, It, One, Two, Ziziphus
related to Examples of sweet substances · 8
Sweetness → Amino Acids, Different, L-alanine, L-serine, Natural, Simple, Sugar, Sweet
related to Future directions in sweetness research · 7
Sweetness → At, Future, Studies, TAS1R2-TAS1R3, The, These, This
related to Post-ingestive signaling and the gut-brain pathway · 7
Sweetness → At, Research, T1R2-T1R3, The, These, This, When
related to Artificial and low-calorie sweeteners · 6
Sweetness → Artificial, Some, Studies, T1R2-T1R3, They, While
related to Cognition · 6
Sweetness → Adding, Furthermore, In, Research, Some, The
related to Low-calorie and artificial sweeteners · 5
Sweetness → Although, For, Low-calorie, On, They
related to MPA theory · 5
Sweetness → Claude Nofre, Jean-Marie Tinti, MPA, The, This

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Sweetnessis abasic taste most commonly perceived when eating foods rich in sugar0.90text
Sweetnessis amultipoint attachment theory0.90text
E. coli.In the beginninginstance ofbeing manifest as chemotaxis even in motile bacteria0.80text
human ancestors progressed in strong preferences for sweet foodsinstance ofbeing manifest as chemotaxis even in motile bacteria0.80text
thaumatininstance ofAnother class of potent natural sweeteners are the sweet proteins0.80text
found in the West African katemfe fruitinstance ofAnother class of potent natural sweeteners are the sweet proteins0.80text
sucroseinstance ofassigned to reference substances0.80text
beveragesinstance ofThey have increased over the years in more products0.80text
packaged foodsinstance ofThey have increased over the years in more products0.80text
emotionalinstance ofSome odors smell sweet and memory confuses whether sweetness was tasted or smelled.Sweetness and eating behavior can be caused by factors0.80text
environmentalinstance ofSome odors smell sweet and memory confuses whether sweetness was tasted or smelled.Sweetness and eating behavior can be caused by factors0.80text
Sweetnessrelated to Artificial and low-calorie sweetenersArtificial0.60section

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