Blame your taste buds for liking fat: Receptor for tasting fat identified in humans

Blame your taste buds for liking fat: Receptor for tasting fat identified in humans: Why do we like fatty foods so much? We can blame our taste buds. In the first study to identify a human receptor that can taste fat, researchers report that our tongues recognize and have an affinity for fat and that variations in a gene can make people more or less sensitive to the taste of fat in foods.