Does Consuming Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners Change Taste Preferences?

Molecular mechanism of species-dependent sweet taste toward artificial sweeteners.

The heterodimer of Tas1R2 and Tas1R3 is a broadly acting sweet taste receptor, which mediates mammalian sweet taste toward natural and artificial sweeteners and sweet-tasting proteins. Perception of sweet taste is a species-selective physiological process. For instance, artificial sweeteners aspartame and neotame taste sweet to humans, apes, and Old World monkeys but not to New World monkeys an...

Sugar and Sweeteners

One of the earliest references to sugar in history is a Spanish drawing of a man harvesting honey, dated around 7000 B.C. We know that the Egyptians kept bees for honey, as depicted in tomb drawings as early as 2600 B.C. Research proves something that most of us are already aware of; people are born with a desire for sweet taste. Sugars are widespread in nature and are the building blocks of ca...

Artificial Sweeteners

Prices versus Preferences: Taste Change and Revealed Preference

A systematic method for incorporating taste variation into a revealed preference framework for heterogeneous consumers is developed. We create a methodology that enables the recovery of the minimal variation in tastes that are required to rationalise the observed choice patterns. This approach is used to examine the extent to which changes in tobacco consumption have been driven by price change...

Genomic, genetic and functional dissection of bitter taste responses to artificial sweeteners.

Bitter taste perception is initiated by TAS2R receptors, which respond to agonists by triggering depolarization of taste bud cells. Mutations in TAS2Rs are known to affect taste phenotypes by altering receptor function. Evidence that TAS2Rs overlap in ligand specificity suggests that they may also contribute joint effects. To explore this aspect of gustation, we examined bitter perception of sa...