Timeline for How well can humans detect vitamin-richness?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:46 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Feb 18, 2017 at 12:13 | comment | added | Roland | This sounds wrong to me. There are certainly structures associated with the recognized human vitamins. There are no taste receptors for them, but humans also have hundreds of olfactory receptors, and for most of them the ligands are still unknown. Also, we might detect vitamins "by proxy", for example recognizing the smell of citrus fruits as "healthy", even if there is no direct receptor for ascorbate (vitamin C). I don't think we know enough about olfaction to be able to answer this question in the negative. | |
| Dec 20, 2016 at 10:15 | comment | added | Remi.b | That was more a typo than a misunderstanding from me as this point was made clear in the last paragraph. Thanks for the comment, I edited the post accordingly. | |
| Dec 20, 2016 at 10:14 | history | edited | Remi.b | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 20, 2016 at 10:12 | comment | added | AlexDeLarge | "Note by the way, that the health effect of vitamins is debated." That's just wrong. The health effect of vitamin supplementation - at least for people without deficiencies - is debated. If you do not provide enough vitamins in your diet you will most definitely have adverse health effects. | |
| Dec 19, 2016 at 16:51 | comment | added | Remi.b | Yes, very likely. You can have a look at the diversity of food source in which those vitamins are found and imagine a single taste would be common to them all. | |
| Dec 19, 2016 at 12:11 | comment | added | Jesvin Jose | That wikipedia article seems human-centric and lists 13 vitamins. If we limit our definition of vitamin to those, is your "no we are not able to sense vitamins" still true? | |
| Dec 19, 2016 at 11:21 | history | answered | Remi.b | CC BY-SA 3.0 |