The Sweetest Lab Ever

The Sweetest Lab Ever!!

In the Sweetest Lab Ever, I was given 8 different Carbohydrates to taste, then we had to determine the level of sweetness each one had. Depending on their structure, if it was a monosaccharide, disaccharide or a polysaccharide, that all determined how sweet they each one would be. The monosaccharide were the sweetest and the polysaccharide were not sweet at all. The polysaccharides for the most part they tasted very bland and had a little bit of a pasty taste aftertaste to them. 

Some of these sugars we tasted today are in many of the foods we eat. For instance, Lactose can be found in milk and other dairy products, and Maltose  in beer and sometimes in a milkshakes. A lot of these sugars are in certain foods giving them the taste enhancement, to give it a better taste so it won't be so bland. 

What causes a human to take sweetness? Well, according to NPR when we taste a sweet food or drink it stimulates the protein receptors on the outer tip of the sweet responding taste cells which causes us to taste that sweetness. Each of our taste cells are divided up into a certain percent which allows us to be able to taste sweet, salty. spicy,sour and bitter foods. When you taste something sweet it opens up a door and excites the sweet cells which then sends signals to the brain and to certain parts of the nervous system which allows us to taste the sweet.