Cara has just finished eating a huge piece of sweet chocolate cake. She is then asked to participate in a taste-test to determine whether she can detect small amounts of sugar added to water. She is likely to have:

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Consuming a large amount of sweet food can temporarily increase a person's threshold for detecting sweetness, as the taste receptors in their mouth become saturated. This means that they would need a higher concentration of sugar in order to detect it. Therefore, Cara is likely to have a high threshold and thus a low sensitivity to small amounts of sugar added to water.

Cara Has Just Finished Eating a Huge Piece of Sweet