Source: Mount Sinai School of Medicine Date: August 21, 2007 Your Gut Has Taste Receptors Science Daily — Researchers in the Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified taste receptors in the human intestines. Scientists have previously shown that the absorption of dietary sugars in the intestine is mediated by a protein – a sugar transporter – that varies in response to the sugar content of foods. The intestine uses a glucose sensing system to monitor these variations, but until now the nature of this system was unknown. The taste receptor T1R3 and the taste G...