how come when you eat/drink sumthing sweet you cant taste something sweet if u eat it rite after?

Answer 1

Taste is the ability to response to dissolved molecules and ions called tastants, which humans detect via taste receptor cells, clustered into taste buds. The tongue has about 10,000 taste buds. When these detect food particles, they send signals to the brain carrying information about their "taste." Each taste bud contains 50-100 taste cells, representing the five taste sensations: salty, sour, sweet, bitter and umami (the response to acidic salts like MSG, often used as a flavor enhancer in Asian dishes, processed meats, and processed cheeses).

Each taste cell has receptors that bond to specific molecules and ions response for the various taste sensations, connected to a sensory neuron leading back to the brain. So taste -- like all sensations -- resides in the brain. That's the reason different people like different things. Although a single cell may have several types of receptors, one may be more active than the others, so certain tastes will be preferred by that individual. Also, no single taste cell contains receptors for both bitter and sweet tastants.

Answer 2

you mean something less sweet right? its because your taste buds are use to the sweeter one so the next thing you eat that is not as sweet wont have taste or even become sour.

Answer 3

well, I think it's because you've saturated your taste Bud with the sweetest, just like when you use a perfume or cologne and you won't be able to smell on yourself anymore, but others can..... I hope this makes sense..

Answer 4

certain sweeteners kind of coat your toungue. Like high fructose corn syrup or sucrose