For the science types out there…
Does L-glucose taste the same as D-glucose? I have heard that it does; now someone on another board tells me he’s heard it does not. While this isn’t an extremely important thing, I’m now wondering. Does anyone know with any certainty?
LL
I’m thinking not, because it would most likely need a separate receptor in the taste buds. But, no, I don’t know for sure.
This link may be of interest
http://antoine.frostburg.edu/college/chemistry/senese/chemed-l/199806/msg00087.html
It should be noted that glucose is not particularly sweet anyway. Sucrose (table sugar) is a disaccharide which is composed of (essentially) one moleclue each of fructose and glucose bound together . It is the fructose that supplies most of the sweetness.
IIRC, they taste different. How they are different, I dunno.