Sweetness


 
 
Sweetness

Sweetness is one of the five basic tastes, and is almost universally regarded as a pleasurable experience. In the English language, things that are pleasant in a more general sense are often called sweet, in phrases such as "sweet rest," "sweet revenge," or "home sweet home." In many other languages, both ancient and modern, the adjective meaning sweet can also be used to describe things that are in any way very good: the author of the 104th Psalm wrote, "My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD."

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Basic taste: Human taste sensory organs, called taste buds or gustatory calyculi, concentrated on the upper surface of the tongue. They appear to be receptive to relatively few chemical species as tastes. This contrasts markedly with the sense of olfaction, where very large numbers of different species can be d...

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Introduction
Examples of sweet substances
Sweetness modifiers
The sweetness receptor
Historical theories of sweetness
References
 


 

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