US EditionSweet Tooth Explained: Researchers Reveal How We Taste Sugar
- A team from Columbia University, led by Charles Zuker, identified the detailed structure of the receptor responsible for detecting sweetness in research that appeared in the journal Cell on May 7, 2025.
- This breakthrough builds on past genetic discoveries about sweet receptors and aims to clarify how sweetness is detected by the brain.
- The study explains how a single receptor recognizes many sweet molecules and how sweet taste signals tell the brain 'this is appetitive' or 'I am averse to this.'
- Associate scientist Zhang Juen explained that revealing the architecture of the sweet receptor helps us understand the molecular processes involved in how we perceive sweetness.
- This finding may enable food manufacturers to create sweeter products with lower sugar content and support the development of sweet receptor-targeted treatments to address obesity and diabetes.
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