update: i suggest buying a gas mask before feeding your cat dried apricots
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is it still believed that cats have feeble sweet gustatory reception?
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as of 2005 i think the consensus is they lack it completely https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16103917
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"A functional sweet-taste receptor heteromer cannot form, and thus the cat lacks the receptor likely necessary for detection of sweet stimuli. This molecular change was very likely an important event in the evolution of the cat's carnivorous behavior." dunno they're fine i think
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hard to imagine what dried apricots would taste like without the sweetness
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if you *really* wanted you could probably find a human with a knockout of this gene and ask them
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Huh, I remember reading that raisins were really bad for cats, and had assumed that all dried fruit was. Interesting to hear that's not the case!
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yeah, the set of things that are extremely toxic to cats is essentially random and in most cases we don't even know what specifically is so bad. i've looked up a few of them, turns out pinning it down is hard!
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My first cat when I was a kid was /nuts/ for broccoli and corn. If we were cooking either he would go wild. Somewhere I have a picture of him stealing broccoli off of my dad's plate right in front of him.
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bought a pack, got one sniff and two uninterested faces
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My cat goes absolutely crazy for sweetcorn, I don't know why
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