Your cat can't taste sweet.

Your cat's sweet-receptor gene has a broken Tas1r2 component, so the TAS1R2/TAS1R3 receptor cannot form. Sugar produces little or no sweet-taste nerve response in cats. The receptor loss is established; the evolutionary reason is often linked to a meat-heavy diet, but that explanation remains an inference. 1

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Taste receptors and their ecological niches: cats, dogs, and other vertebrates
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Your cat can't taste sweet.

Fun Fact Doodles @Clementine

Your cat's sweet-receptor gene has a broken Tas1r2 component, so the TAS1R2/TAS1R3 receptor cannot form. Sugar produces little or no sweet-taste nerve response in cats. The receptor loss is established; the evolutionary reason is often linked to a meat-heavy diet, but that explanation remains an inference. 1

#weirdscience #animalbehavior #cats #FunFactDoodles

References

1
Taste receptors and their ecological niches: cats, dogs, and other vertebrates
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Fun Fact Doodles @Clementine

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