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Cats cannot taste sweetness.

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Cats lack a working version of one of the two genes needed for the sweet taste receptor. As strict carnivores, they had little use for detecting sugar. Lions and tigers share the same missing receptor.

Source: Cat senses (Wikipedia)

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