Dogs are congenital sniffing masters because they have a clever sense of taste with heaven; but when it comes to taste buds, humans are much better than dogs. Protein kinases that can accept the taste of chemical substances are called taste buds. Th...
Dogs are congenital sniffing masters because they have a clever sense of taste with heaven; but when it comes to taste buds, humans are much better than dogs. Protein kinases that can accept the taste of chemical substances are called taste buds. The human average is 9,000 taste buds distributed on the tip, side and back of the tongue, while the dog's taste buds can only be 1,700, cats and even fewer, only about 470. Therefore, when dogs like certain types of food, they may first smell the food very good, not because the food tastes very good. In the basic human taste, it is divided into four types, namely sweet, salty, sour and bitter. Early scientific research emphasized that dogs have similar reactions to human taste buds, but a little different is that dogs are not as savory as humans.
The special foods in the world of human beings are basically inevitable with the smell of salt, and moderate salt content is necessary for the balance of the human body. However, for dogs, their ancestors were dominated by meat foods, and meat foods contained sufficient sodium. Therefore, in fact, the dog's congenital taste buds are not like humans, and they hope to eat foods containing salt.
Little do you know that when it comes to sweet taste, the compound corresponding to dog's taste buds when receiving sweet taste is called Furaneol. This type of chemical substance can be found in many fresh fruits and tomatoes. It seems that dogs like this type of flavor very much, but cats can be said to have no feelings for this type of chemical substance. This is why dogs like to eat sweets, but cats always turn a blind eye to sweets.
Therefore, we can let dogs consume some fresh fruits appropriately, consider their impulse for sweets, and give them less special desserts and white sugar. Because this special dessert is not good for their physical and mental health, it will also lead to obesity and tooth problems; in addition, the artificial service melanin that will be added to the desserts will also cause burden on the kidneys.
Dog taste is very annoying for dogs, so bitter taste is used in some anti-bite sprays. However, due to the spread of taste buds, if you just lick it quickly or swallow it in small mouths, the dog will not easily feel the bitter taste. It must be swallowed for a long time before you can eat it to get the bitter taste.
It is very interesting that some of the taste buds of dogs exist for water, which are not available to humans. This type of taste buds is spread all over the dog's tongue, especially after they have eaten salty or too sweet foods, this type of taste buds will be very sensitive. It is a system for dogs and their carnivorous animals to maintain balanced body moisture. Due to the existence of this type of taste buds, dogs seem to be able to feel the joy of drinking more water than humans.
