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a chemical lie your tongue believes faster than your brain can object
means Tasting of or full of sugar — or, by extension, so sweet in tone or sentiment that it verges on cloying.
from From "sugar" plus the adjective ending "-y." "Sugar" itself traveled a long road: from Sanskrit "sharkara" (originally meaning gravel or grit, fittingly, for sugar's crystalline grains) into Arabic "sukkar," then through medieval Latin and Old French into English. The "-y" ending, an old Germanic suffix meaning "having the quality of," makes the whole thing simply mean "sugar-like." The figurative sense — sweet to the point of insincerity — followed naturally, the way real sugar coats anything it touches.
- brain reward
- Lights up the same circuits as cocaine
- taste limit
- Tongue detects sweetness at one part in two hundred
- sweetness scale
- Some proteins taste thousands of times sweeter than sugar
- ancient craving
- Sweet meant safe, ripe, and rarely poisonous
- hidden everywhere
- Bread, ketchup, and sauces smuggle in serious doses
coca cola — contains 39g of sugar per 12 oz can, the world's most consumed sugary beverage
hershey's milk chocolate — contains 24g of sugar per 43g bar, america's bestselling chocolate candy
frosted flakes cereal — contains 12g of sugar per 1 cup serving, marketed as a sugary breakfast staple since 1951