Caffeine may suppress sweet taste; Research links personality and diet

Caffeine may suppress sweet taste
Caffeine consumption may decrease the perceived intensity of sweet taste, suggests a recent Journal of Food Sciencestudy. Caffeine’s well-documented physiological effect on alertness originates from its actions as an antagonist of adenosine receptors in the brain. Findings demonstrating that adenosine receptors are expressed in sweet-sensitive taste cells of rodents suggest that caffeine consumed through foods has the potential to act on these receptors in…