There's nothing wrong with eating desserts, it's all because of coffee!

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For a long time, the editor did not understand why after drinking coffee, he felt so faint in his mouth that he especially wanted to eat some desserts, snacks and cookies. Obviously, I don't feel hungry at all before drinking coffee, but I feel inexplicably greedy.

Now, scientists have finally returned the editor's innocence-it's not the glutton in the editor's stomach, it's all the fault of coffee!

Source: @ ling 🍰🍒

A team of scientists at Cornell University recently found that caffeine can affect the way people feel sweet and make people crave sweets more strongly.

Caffeine is refreshing because it blocks the brain's receptor receptors from receiving adenosine, a sleepy chemical that has been shown to help people taste sweetness.

In this study, the scientists gave subjects a cup of mildly sweet coffee without telling them whether it contained caffeine. The results confirm that "drinking coffee has a strong placebo effect".

But even though many participants guessed that they drank normal amounts of caffeine, people who did drink caffeine felt that the coffee was not so sweet, and their ability to taste sweetness was still weak after more than 15 minutes. In other words, you have to eat very sweet food to feel sweet.

Robin Dando, director of sensory assessment and assistant professor of food science at Cornell University, said the findings showed that drinking caffeine had a "significant effect" on reducing sweetness. Many people drink more than one cup of coffee a day, "which may have a cumulative effect throughout the day," he said.

The researchers found that caffeine did not affect people's feelings of bitterness, sour, salty or delicious taste.

Source: @ ling 🍰🍒

Dando's previous research has found that chemically blocking a person's ability to feel sweetness makes people crave more sugary foods and seek high-calorie foods. According to his collective study, drinking a cup of caffeinated coffee (which has the same blocking effect) makes people love cookies or cakes more than usual.

All right, stop it... I.

Now you know why most coffee shops serve snacks and desserts?

There's nothing wrong with eating desserts, it's all because of coffee!