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Nothing really makes it taste sweet. It's your taste buds that determines that. So really nothing makes thing sweet. That's just how food is.
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The sweet potato has natural sugars in it that makes it sweet to the taste.
the sugar is added to cakes to make it taste sweeter and let other things in cake feed on it.
Sugars
that's just how things are...some things are sweet, some are bitter
This is the "Miracle Berry" plant; if you were to eat a berry from it, and then tasted a lemon or other tart/sour food, it would taste sweet. The effect lasts for about an hour. We have one growing in our yard in Hawaii.
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Anything extremely sweet, sour, bitter, salty, spicy, or hot can affect your taste buds.Examples include:AlumHot peppersPure caffeineHigh intensity sweeteners (like Neotame)Picklesetc.A fun example is the Miracle Fruit. This fruit has a compound known as miraculin. When you eat miraculin, it alters your taste buds and makes sour things taste sweet for up to 24 hours.
The vacuole in plant cells are responsible for storing sugars and other nutrients, which contribute to the sweetness of an apple. The vacuole contains enzymes and molecules that break down starches into sugars, making the apple taste sweet.
There are taste buds on your tongue that differentiate between sweet and sour or bitter.
That would be salt. The addition of salt enhances the release of the molecules of other things that are flavorful, meaning that you will taste them more easily or more pronounced.