Do fish taste sweetness

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Do fish taste sweetness

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I work at a well known ingredients manufacturer where I am in constant contact with a product that tastes several hundreds of times sweeter than sucrose. When I get home from work I can still taste the sweetness on my hands after several washings/showers. I am not worried about putting too much sugar in the water, but rather that I might overload the taste receptors of my fish. Right now I am mainly housing cories, which I assume won't be affected. I did a forum search for taste, and found that they are pretty much exclusively carnivores, which would not seem to make tasting sweet a high priority from an evolutionary sense.
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Taste receptors that are very similar to mammalian taste receptors for sweet substances have been reported in fishes.
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