date:May 15, 2013
s, and fruit flies are able to sense nutrition independently of taste. Even when researchers genetically engineered lab animals not to be able to taste sweetness, they learn to prefer mixtures containing real sugar instead of artificial sweetener.
In this study, the researchers had people drink artificially flavored drinks. Some of the drinks were calorie-free, while others contained maltodextrin, a carbohydrate that people cant taste, but still has calories. In a series of experiments, the res