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Dextrose comes in left- and right-handed enantiomers; only the right-handed version can be metabolized. Does the left-handed version ( levose?) taste sweet?
I don't think that that's actually mirror-dextrose, from the description. I would expect mirror-dextrose to have zero caloric content but it might be sweet; I have no idea. -- Andrew 02:14, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
class. 64.252.24.88 ( talk) 19:02, 24 December 2007 (UTC) Ah, that's interesting! Do you know if anyone has tried to use them as sugar replacements? If they are equally sweet but cannot be metabolized, it seems one could make a reasonable sugar replacement by inorganically synthesizing, say, fructose, then letting some bug digest all the dextrose... when you say they cannot be metabolized, what does that mean? Do they pass from the digestive tract into the bloodstream? Are they safely eliminated from the body? Presumably they cannot be used as an energy source... -- Andrew 00:35, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
Could somebody explain what exactly is meant when they say that something is 2,000x as sweet as something else? Thanks! DanKeshet 05:14, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)
etc... -- Henrybaker 03:37, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
Actually this is how it's done [1] Sigh Ns ( talk) 00:12, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
The intro has the following at the end of it.
What does this have to do with the topic? The topic seems to be related to the sense of taste. This material is not relevant and detracts from the article. At best this material belongs in another article but, frankly, I'm not sure what that article would be able. Wikipedia, after all, is not a dictionary.
I'm going to going to remove this. If somebody has a different viewpoint, feel free to restore, rephrase, comment, or whatever.
-- Mcorazao 19:42, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Does the photograph of the girl with the lollipop really lend anything to this topic. And should it be properly captioned? (Sorry, I'm not that confident with captioning yet to do it myself)
GideonJones (
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06:25, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
There is a rock and roll band named sweet but now it redirects to sweetness. You have to search on The Sweet to get to the band but that's no their name. Ozmaweezer 15:07, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Not necessarily. If you're drunk or hungover, it's more likely you'll be repulsed by the idea of eating sweet food, but savoury food will appeal to you greatly.-- So Oaty ( talk) 15:48, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Almost universally regarded as a pleasurable experience...by the sober. — ₲ravity ₵ontrol —Preceding undated comment added 23:59, 23 November 2009 (UTC).
I don't have time to look it up but I'm pretty sure that the line about elepus ("and elepus is more than 9 times sweeter than sucrose.") should go, considering that elepus doesn't seem to be a real thing.
"In the natural settings that human primate ancestors evolved in, sweetness intensity should indicate energy density, while bitterness tends to indicate toxicity"
should be
"In the natural settings that human primate ancestors are theorized to have evolved in, sweetness intensity should indicate energy density, while bitterness tends to indicate toxicity"
until evolution is proven as fact, why not stay unbias and fair and tell it as it is? ;) 50.47.151.223 ( talk) 13:55, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
I am pretty sure that the Lead Acetate was not good for the ancient Romans. That said, Lead poisoning was a universal problem effecting all classes, not just the aristocracy. By far the primary cause of the ailment, and it is a well known fact, that their drinking water was transported in Lead pipes. retrograde62 21:26, 20 Jun 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.189.161.147 ( talk)
Sugar alcohols might be of interest. Xylitol for example is a common sweetener in processed foods and candy. 67.167.106.3 ( talk) 12:59, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Sweetness appears to have the highest taste recognition threshold, being detectable at around 1 part in 200 of sucrose in solution. By comparison, bitterness appears to have the lowest detection threshold, at about 1 part in 2 million for quinine in solution.[4]
But at 300000x sweetness, Lugduname would be detected at 1 part in 6 million — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.157.8.253 ( talk) 07:56, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
What would tasting something pure which is >1,000x sweeter than sugar taste like? At what point is it considered 'excess'? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:48F8:3022:D9E:B4C6:5220:7DB8:9D64 ( talk) 12:32, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
Supposedly heavy water has a sweet taste although I can't find any actual research on the subject. I do think it's interesting in the sense that makes humans able to distinguish between regular and heavy water by taste. Also, what do sugar and heavy water have in common? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXHVqId0MQc — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jestempies ( talk • contribs) 15:01, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
As this article says: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4542652/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.237.43.108 ( talk) 18:38, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
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Dextrose comes in left- and right-handed enantiomers; only the right-handed version can be metabolized. Does the left-handed version ( levose?) taste sweet?
I don't think that that's actually mirror-dextrose, from the description. I would expect mirror-dextrose to have zero caloric content but it might be sweet; I have no idea. -- Andrew 02:14, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
class. 64.252.24.88 ( talk) 19:02, 24 December 2007 (UTC) Ah, that's interesting! Do you know if anyone has tried to use them as sugar replacements? If they are equally sweet but cannot be metabolized, it seems one could make a reasonable sugar replacement by inorganically synthesizing, say, fructose, then letting some bug digest all the dextrose... when you say they cannot be metabolized, what does that mean? Do they pass from the digestive tract into the bloodstream? Are they safely eliminated from the body? Presumably they cannot be used as an energy source... -- Andrew 00:35, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
Could somebody explain what exactly is meant when they say that something is 2,000x as sweet as something else? Thanks! DanKeshet 05:14, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)
etc... -- Henrybaker 03:37, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
Actually this is how it's done [1] Sigh Ns ( talk) 00:12, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
The intro has the following at the end of it.
What does this have to do with the topic? The topic seems to be related to the sense of taste. This material is not relevant and detracts from the article. At best this material belongs in another article but, frankly, I'm not sure what that article would be able. Wikipedia, after all, is not a dictionary.
I'm going to going to remove this. If somebody has a different viewpoint, feel free to restore, rephrase, comment, or whatever.
-- Mcorazao 19:42, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Does the photograph of the girl with the lollipop really lend anything to this topic. And should it be properly captioned? (Sorry, I'm not that confident with captioning yet to do it myself)
GideonJones (
talk)
06:25, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
There is a rock and roll band named sweet but now it redirects to sweetness. You have to search on The Sweet to get to the band but that's no their name. Ozmaweezer 15:07, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Not necessarily. If you're drunk or hungover, it's more likely you'll be repulsed by the idea of eating sweet food, but savoury food will appeal to you greatly.-- So Oaty ( talk) 15:48, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Almost universally regarded as a pleasurable experience...by the sober. — ₲ravity ₵ontrol —Preceding undated comment added 23:59, 23 November 2009 (UTC).
I don't have time to look it up but I'm pretty sure that the line about elepus ("and elepus is more than 9 times sweeter than sucrose.") should go, considering that elepus doesn't seem to be a real thing.
"In the natural settings that human primate ancestors evolved in, sweetness intensity should indicate energy density, while bitterness tends to indicate toxicity"
should be
"In the natural settings that human primate ancestors are theorized to have evolved in, sweetness intensity should indicate energy density, while bitterness tends to indicate toxicity"
until evolution is proven as fact, why not stay unbias and fair and tell it as it is? ;) 50.47.151.223 ( talk) 13:55, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
I am pretty sure that the Lead Acetate was not good for the ancient Romans. That said, Lead poisoning was a universal problem effecting all classes, not just the aristocracy. By far the primary cause of the ailment, and it is a well known fact, that their drinking water was transported in Lead pipes. retrograde62 21:26, 20 Jun 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.189.161.147 ( talk)
Sugar alcohols might be of interest. Xylitol for example is a common sweetener in processed foods and candy. 67.167.106.3 ( talk) 12:59, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Sweetness appears to have the highest taste recognition threshold, being detectable at around 1 part in 200 of sucrose in solution. By comparison, bitterness appears to have the lowest detection threshold, at about 1 part in 2 million for quinine in solution.[4]
But at 300000x sweetness, Lugduname would be detected at 1 part in 6 million — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.157.8.253 ( talk) 07:56, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
What would tasting something pure which is >1,000x sweeter than sugar taste like? At what point is it considered 'excess'? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:48F8:3022:D9E:B4C6:5220:7DB8:9D64 ( talk) 12:32, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
Supposedly heavy water has a sweet taste although I can't find any actual research on the subject. I do think it's interesting in the sense that makes humans able to distinguish between regular and heavy water by taste. Also, what do sugar and heavy water have in common? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXHVqId0MQc — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jestempies ( talk • contribs) 15:01, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
As this article says: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4542652/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.237.43.108 ( talk) 18:38, 4 October 2018 (UTC)