Sweet Lab

During this lab, we tasted eight different carbohydrates and tested the sweetness of each of them. The eight carbohydrates that we tried were sucrose, glucose, fructose, galactose, maltose, lactose, starch, and cellulose.
We concluded that the polysaccharides were the ones that tasted the least sweet, while the disaccharides were the sweetest. According to NPR , we sense sweet when the object, such as sugar, reaches our taste buds, which contains over 100 cells. When the receptor protein and sugar reach each other, it simulates the sweet taste cell that sends signals to the brain and responds to the sweetness, which is the taste.
I thought that the starch, was very bland, which explains why many people don't like vegetables. Because starch is found in many cell walls in plants, it proves that many vegetables are not sweet and are generally bland. In my opinion, i thought the sweetest carbohydrate was fructose. I then realized that many fruits, foods, and drinks have fructose in them. Fructose is commonly added to foods and drinks for patability and taste enhancements, which explains why many people prefer fruits over vegetables.