Sweetness (other)
Sweetness is one of the five basic tastes. Sweetness may also refer to: * Sweetness of wine * "Sweetness" (Terence Trent D'Arby song) * "Sweetness" (Fischerspooner song) * "Sweetness" (Michelle Gayle song) (1994) * "Sweetness" (Jimmy Eat World song) (2002) * "Sweetness" (Lili Haydn song) * "Sweetness" (Misia song) (1999) * "Sweetness" (Toadies song) * "Sweetness" (Umphrey's McGee song) * "Sweetness" (The Waifs song) * "Sweetness" (Yes song) * ''Sweetness'' (novel), a 1995 novel by Torgny Lindgren * Walter Payton or Sweetness (1954–1999), American football player * Sweetness, a character in ''Roll Bounce'' See also * Sweet (other) * Swete Swete is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Henry Barclay Swete (1835–1917), English Biblical scholar and professor of divinity *John Swete (1752–1821), English clergyman, artist, antiquary, and topographer See also *Sweet ...

Sweetness
Sweetness is a Taste#Basic tastes, basic taste most commonly Perception, perceived when eating foods rich in sugars. Sweet tastes are generally regarded as pleasure, pleasurable. In addition to sugars like sucrose, many other chemical compounds are sweet, including aldehydes, ketones, and sugar alcohols. Some are sweet at very low concentrations, allowing their use as non-caloric sugar substitutes. Such Sugar substitute, non-sugar sweeteners include saccharin and aspartame. Other compounds, such as miraculin, may alter perception of sweetness itself. The perceived intensity of sugars and high-potency sweeteners, such as Aspartame and Neohesperidin dihydrochalcone, Neohesperidin Dihydrochalcone, are heritable, with gene effect accounting for approximately 30% of the variation. The chemoreceptor, chemosensory basis for detecting sweetness, which varies between both individuals and species, has only begun to be understood since the late 20th century. One theoretical model of sweet ...
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