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The taste buds in your gut are on the same side of the gut as the food. So your gut can taste sugars that pass through you without being absorbed. Given that f
by Declanomous 10y ago
The taste buds in your gut are on the same side of the gut as the food. So your gut can taste sugars that pass through you without being absorbed.
Given that fact, we can speculate that sweet things that aren't absorbed might be more harmful than ones that are absorbed, as they have a chance to activate taste buds all the way through the gut as they go past, rather than just the earlier ones.
- petra 10y agoTrue, there might be such mechanisms. Hopefully the guys at DouxMatok are think about this and optimizing their sweetener to quickly dissolve in the gut. And sure, this definetly needs full animal testing before claiming things about it.