Red pandas have a sweet tooth

Friday, April 24, 2009 - 15:56 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A threatened species native to the Himalayas is helping to shed light on how we taste sugary sweet foods — researchers have found that red pandas unexpectedly have a sweet tooth for aspartame.

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