The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
In fact, this pathway is so powerful that they've done experiments where they completely numb all the taste and feeling in somebody's mouth they're blindfolded. So they don't know what they're eating and they're eating a food. That's either sugary or not sugary. And what they find is that even though people can't taste the sugary food they crave more of the food that contains sugar because of the sensors in the gut, that sense sugar.
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Now there's the second pathway, the second pathway is what's called the post-ingestive reinforcing properties of sugar, which is really just a fancy nerd speak way of saying there are events that happen within your stomach and below your conscious detection, that are also driving you to seek out sweet tasting things, independent of their taste, and foods that increase blood glucose, independent of their taste.
there are signals conveyed from the gut, meaning stomach and intestines, to the brain anytime we ingest sweet foods, but it has nothing to do with our perception of them being sweet, it has everything to do with the fact that sweetness of food is almost always correlated with an ability to increase blood glucose.
One pathway in your brain and body is devoted to getting you to seek out sweet tasting things that you perceive as sweet, and another parallel pathway is devoted to getting you to seek out foods that lead to increases in blood glucose.
in addition, ingesting sweet foods and/or foods that raise blood glucose, but that we don't perceive as sweet. So for instance, foods with hidden sugars, sugars that have been masked asked by salty or spicy taste, increases our desire for glucose elevating foods and food, generally, I think that's the only logical interpretation of the data that I can arrive at.
The second pathway is what's called the postingestive reinforcing properties of sugar, which is really just a fancy nerdspeak way of saying there are events that happen with your within your stomach and below your conscious detection that are also driving you to seek out sweet tasting things independent of their taste. and foods that increase blood glucose independent of their taste.