Cats can’t taste sweetness

Some scientists have long suspected that cats, which are strict carnivores, are "sweet blind." Now there's proof: Cats lack the receptor for sweetness. The discovery opens a window on what taste is for and how it evolved. It may also help cat food makers to create a product that even sick cats will eat.

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Kennetta Metz Bartels

My cat loves ice cream. He will crawl.all.over me and try to put his paws in.my bowl.

RexTSiciliano

Cats taste sweetness but not the way we do.

Nanette

mine love ice cream, chocolate, and especially sliced peaches in heavy syrup. i think this answer is wrong.

Eve

Just because they don't taste sweet doesn't mean they won't eat sweet. It may still taste good to them - just not sweet as we know sweet.

Sarah65

My cat proves this wrong. She loves sweets.

Kevin Dale Streets

And how do these "scientists" know? Were they cats in other lives?

Leader PM Imran Khan 🇵🇰

I have tried this

Coral

Both my cats adore milk which has been sweetened but refuse to touch non sweetened milk. What can I deduce from that ? !

Rosemary Ramsey

Well my cat smells and loves sugar so I'm not sold on that theory.

Armadillo

Kennetta Metz Bartels, my cats and I all dislike ice cream.

Player

No it is true they just don't taste sweetness the way we do. I had a cat that loved toffee it was weird to watch her it it.

Legs63

I've had cats all of my life. They have all liked sweets

Amy Miller

I used to have a cat who would mug you for any fresh fruit you happened by with. I had another who would kill for white grape peach juice. Both gingers, both gone now. Every female cat I ever had loved cantaloupe.