A cat's tongue cannot taste sweetness. The cat's taste organs are the taste buds located at the base of the tongue, the soft palate, and the taste corpuscles on the oral wall. Cats can sense sour, bitter, spicy, and salty tastes, but cats’ taste organs are not very perfect and cannot sense sweetness. Some studies have pointed out that there are two types of “sweet taste receptors” called “T1R2” and “T1R3” proteins are formed, but cats do not form one of these two important proteins, T1R2, due to a genetic defect. Therefore, the cat’s tongue cannot taste the sweet taste.

The dangers of cats eating a lot of sweets:

1. It will increase the probability of cats suffering from oral diseases. Sweets are foods that many bacteria like, which greatly accelerates the growth of bacteria in the mouth. reproduction rate.

2. Sweets will increase the burden on the cat’s digestive system, because cats use protein food as energy rather than carbohydrate food.

3. Sugary foods can damage cats’ bodies, causing flatulence, diarrhea and colic.

4. If cats are in a state of eating sugar for a long time, they will easily gain weight, which is not good for their health.