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1. sweetest

   Sweetness is a basic taste most commonly perceived when eating foods rich in sugars. Sweet tastes are generally regarded as pleasurable. In addition to sugars like sucrose, many other chemical compounds are sweet, including aldehydes, ketones, and sugar alcohols. Some are sweet at very low concentrations, allowing their use as non-caloric sugar substitutes. Such non-sugar sweeteners include saccharin and aspartame. Other compounds, such as miraculin, may alter perception of sweetness itself. The perceived intensity of sugars and high-potency sweeteners, such as Aspartame and Neohesperidin Dihydrochalcone, are heritable, with gene effect accounting for approximately 30% of the variation.The chemosensory basis for detecting sweetness, which varies between both individuals and species, has only begun to be understood since the late 20th century. One theoretical model of sweetness is the multipoint attachment theory, which involves multiple binding sites between a sweetness receptor and a sweet substance. Studies indicate that responsiveness to sugars and sweetness has very ancient evolutionary beginnings, being manifest as chemotaxis even in motile bacteria such as E. coli. Newborn human infants also demonstrate preferences for high sugar concentrations and prefer solutions that are sweeter than lactose, the sugar found in breast milk. Sweetness appears to have the highest taste recognition threshold, being detectable at around 1 part in 200 of sucrose in solution. By comparison, bitterness appears to have the lowest detection threshold, at about 1 part in 2 million for quinine in solution. In the natural settings that human primate ancestors evolved in, sweetness intensity should indicate energy density, while bitterness tends to indicate toxicity. The high sweetness detection threshold and low bitterness detection threshold would have predisposed our primate ancestors to seek out sweet-tasting (and energy-dense) foods and avoid bitter-tasting foods. Even amongst leaf-eating primates, there is a tendency to prefer immature leaves, which tend to be higher in protein and lower in fibre and poisons than mature leaves. The 'sweet tooth' thus has an ancient heritage, and while food processing has changed consumption patterns, human physiology remains largely unchanged.

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1. sweetest

   Sweetest is a superlative form of the adjective "sweet" and is used to describe something that has the highest level or degree of sweetness. It suggests that the taste or flavor of the thing being described is highly attractive, pleasant, or sugary. Additionally, "sweetest" can also be used metaphorically to describe something or someone that is exceptionally kind, affectionate, or endearing.

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sweetest in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sweetest in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of sweetest in a Sentence

1. Robert Herjavec:

   We may stop at In-N-Out burger on the way to New York, that’s the sweetest thing ever. We’ll have to ask for something not on the menu.

2. Henry Ward Beecher:

   Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.

3. Patrick Swayze:

   (They were) the sweetest, sexiest love scenes I've ever been involved with.

4. Percy Bysshe Shelley:

   Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thoughts.

5. Emily Dickinson:

   Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

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