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the first taste evolution taught us to trust, and the first one it weaponized against us.
means The quality of tasting like sugar, or by extension, a quality of being kind, pleasant, or lovable.
from From Old English "swetnes," built on "swete" (sweet), which traces back to a Proto-Germanic root "swotja-" and beyond that to a deep Proto-Indo-European "swad-" meaning pleasant or agreeable. That same ancient root is a cousin of Latin "suavis" (suave, agreeable) and "suadere" (to urge, persuade — literally to make a thing seem sweet), as well as Greek "hedys" (sweet, the heart of "hedonist"). The "-ness" is the plain old English suffix that turns a quality into a thing you can name.
- tongue myth
- sweet receptors live everywhere, not one map zone
- sweetest molecule
- lugduname tastes 200,000 times sweeter than sugar
- survival signal
- babies prefer sweet, flagging safe high-energy food
- gut taste
- intestines have sweet receptors too, no tongue needed
- miracle berry
- rewires tongue to make sour taste sweet
coca-cola — contains 39g of sugar per 12oz can, the most consumed soft drink globally
honeycomb cereal — breakfast cereal with 12g sugar per serving, iconic since 1965
maple syrup grade a — pure sweetness at 67g sugar per 100ml, vermont and quebec's primary export