Human blood tastes 'salty and sweet' like caramel to mosquitoes

Human blood tastes a bit like salted caramel to hungry mosquitoes, according to a new study. New research reveals how the insects experience the taste of blood Mosquitoes spread diseases like malaria, dengue, and yellow fever that kill at least half a million people each year via their bite. Human blood tastes 'sweet and salty' like the popular confectionery - but it's also experiencing flavours outside the realm of 'the human experience' NEURONS: SPECIAL CELLS THAT TRANSMIT NERVE A neuron, also known as nerve cell, is an electrically excitable cell that takes up, processes and transmits information through electrical and chemical signals. Jové suspected that female aedes aegypti mosquitoes, unlike males, would be able to distinguish between the two substances – nectar and blood – by taste. 'Some of components of blood probably taste the same to humans and mosquitoes – the saltiness of sodium chloride, the sourness or fizziness of sodium bicarbonate, the sweetness of glucose,' said Dr Vosshall.