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TIL Cats have little to no ability to taste sweetness
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Probably because they’re obligate carnivores, and being able to prefer sweet fruits their bodies can’t use would be an evolutionary disadvantage.
Because cats are a bunch of salty bitches. We’ve known this forever since the days of the pharaohs, but we love them anyway.
> Scientists do know, however, that cats can taste things we cannot, such as adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the compound that supplies the energy in every living cell.
So maybe meat tastes like gelato to them.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-cats-cannot-taste-sweets.
Another reason cats are awesome.
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Why was my cat absolutley obsessed with Canalope and Watermelon if it can’t taste the sweetness?
My cat loves to lick strawberries, cherries and grapes. I stopped giving them to him because cavities and because grapes and cherries are toxic to cats.
I assumed that they had the texture of flesh to him.