Glucose: Part 2

Sugar is one of the sweetest sensations known to man. There are four sensations actually… sweetness, sourness, bitterness, and saltiness. Sweet implies that it is good to eat. Sweet usually means that fruit is ripe, whereas sour means that many acids are still present in the food. Bitter tastes tell us that the compounds of Alkaloids, which are often poisonous. We sense all these thanks to our taste buds and they can tell us what's good for us and what's bad. There are also many nonsugars that taste sweet, which makes millions for the sweetener industries. Saccharine was the first to be developed. It is a powder, has no caloric value, and tastes sweet, therefore Saccharine was exploited and became very popular around our self-image drawn society. Our lives back then, and today are shaped by sugar, they can be healthy for us, or poisonous, and are very desirable. It is a very important compound.