Talk:Sweetness

message: 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)
:My understanding of sweetness, and it may be wrong, is that the sweetness of something is determined by the number of molecules that that substance takes to trigger the sweetness receptor in the taste bud.  For example, let's say that it takes 10,000 molecules of substance X to trigger the sweetness receptor in tastebuds.  Now let's say that it takes only 5,000 molecules of substance Y to trigger the sweetness receptor in the tastebuds.  You could say that substance Y is twice as sweet as substance X.  And if it only took 1 molecule of substance Z to activate the receptors, substance Z would be 10,000 times as sweet as substance X and 5,000 times as sweet substance Y.
etc...
--Henrybaker 03:37, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Please add new comments/questions under a new heading. Thanks. Richard001 05:53, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

text: The slate link is correct, but the problem remains that the phrase “X times sweeter than sucrose" is very misleading for two reasons: a) “high-intensity” sweeteners are rarely sweeter than concentrated sucrose; instead, the ratio refers to the amount needed to evoke a threshold (ie very very weak) response and b) it mistakenly implies that that all sweeteners have similar psychophysical slopes across concentration when in reality the relative sweetness of a compound to sucrose varies greatly across concentration. Jeh25 (talk) 19:53, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: How is sweetness measured?

message: The intro has the following at the end of it.
: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," "sweet dreams," 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.
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)
replies: text: It could be relevant on a section about the word's etymology. Richard001 07:00, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irrelevant material? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Sweet redirects to sweetness??? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  almost universally regarded as a pleasurable experience 

message: "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)
replies: text: Evolution is one of the strongest theories going, AND it is a fact too. The word "theory" in science does not mean some sort of unsubstantiated wild guess, but an explanation for an observed phenomenon which has evidence to back it up. In the world of science, there appears to be little or no dissent as regards that point, and this is reflected in Wikipedia. The article should not be modified for those who refuse to accept the theory for whatever reasons they have. The statement, as written was NOT unbiased. Evolution, for some reason sparks off certain people much more than other theories. We don't appear to see anyone disagree with the theory of universal gravitation, for instance, other than refinements in the face of work done illustrating spacetime curvature.2.125.67.41 (talk) 23:07, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evolution is a theory 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Examples of sweet substances (and Lead Poisoning) 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Sugar alcohols could be mentioned 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Sweetness appears to have the highest taste recognition threshold? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  A question, maybe a fact for the page 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Heavy water 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Food temperature affect sweetness perception