Scientists from the Australian University of Deakin University have discovered a new sixth taste in humans, which is responsible for the craving for carbohydrates and, accordingly, for obesity..

A group of experts in the field of healthy nutrition, led by Julia Lowe, found out that a person is able to feel not five tastes (salty, bitter, sour, sweet and umami (taste of high-protein substances)), but six. New taste is responsible for people's passion for carbohydrates.

Accordingly, people who are more sensitive to this kind of taste have a greater passion for bread, potatoes, pasta and various pastry products.. And this, in turn, causes them to become obese.. Previously, scientists thought that such people were attracted to the taste of sugar, but now it turned out that they are attracted to the taste of carbohydrates..

Australian researchers conducted an experiment involving 34 adults.

They were able to find that some of them are particularly responsive to two of the most common carbohydrates found in pasta, rice and bread.. The experts decided to assess how and how sensitive these people are to this taste, determined the amount of carbohydrates they eat, the total calorie content of their food and the amount of fat in the body..

It turned out that in overweight people, taste buds react to carbohydrates in a special way.. And this means that innate taste directly affects the increase in fat in the human body..

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