Intestinal response to the bitter taste

American scientists have discovered that the small intestine detects a bitter taste and reacts slower digestion. In this way the body itself provides additional protection against food toxins that are usually bitter in taste. Researchers from the University of California at Irvine found that when mice were injected into the stomach of bitter substances, enabled in her small intestine receptors for bitterness. Activation of these receptors leads to an increased production of the hormone cholecystokinin, which reduces appetite and prevents the consumption of large quantities of toxins and slows progress by toxins in food poisoning through the gastrointestinal tract, increasing the chances of it be removed by vomiting and the reduction of the rate of absorption of toxins. Moreover, it was found that the activity of receptors for bitterness increases at low concentrations of cholesterol. It is assumed that this is rich in cholesterol than animal to a higher content of bitter substances toxins in bad cholesterol plant foods. The data obtained are used in the development of new dosage forms, which absorbed the bitter medicine at normal speed.