Frontiers of Food Science: Do Sound and Color Affect Flavor?
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
00:00
The Effects of Sugar on the Body
There is a built-in safety net that will sort of tell your pancreas to calm down and not send your blood sugar levels wild. But there is a lot we don't understand about what eating sweet things and having those sweet signals in our body is doing other than just making us happy. Our bodies are so clever. There are two different kinds of sweet taste receptors. One is only happy if that sweetness is coming with calories. It can tell if you're trying to fool it, basically.
Transcript
Play full episode
