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Soda tastes too sweet now ?!

Thatonechickoverthere
Thatonechickoverthere Posts: 100 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Is there a scientific explanation for this? I

I used to love soda, specially regular Pepsi. I drank it a lot. Once I decided to lose weight I stopped drinking it. So I haven't had it in a few months and the other day I was out shopping with my family and I was thirsty. My dad offered me his soda. I reluctantly took a sip and I thought I would enjoy the familiar taste, but it tasted way too sweet and I didn't like it. I was suprised. How did that happen?

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  • Thatonechickoverthere
    Thatonechickoverthere Posts: 100 Member
    Specifically* not specially
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    Probably because it is so much sweeter than the rest of your diet at this point. Sweet tea doesn't taste as sweet if you drink it right after eating ice cream.
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,024 Member
    I can't drink soda, sweet coffee or sweet tea anymore. It's all way too sweet and hurts my teeth and upsets my stomach.
  • Michael190lbs
    Michael190lbs Posts: 1,510 Member
    I dropped sugar from my diet for some 21 day fix I even dropped Fruits so it was extreme for myself and ya once I went back to eating fruit it was so much better tasting.. I still keep my sugar under 50 grams a day with fruit and No more cravings for sweets is a good thing..
  • Alluminati
    Alluminati Posts: 6,208 Member
    It means you are transforming into a unicorn.
  • barbecuesauce
    barbecuesauce Posts: 1,771 Member
    I had a single sip the other night and it was unbearable! And I eat sweet things like ice cream (and I even had a bit of birthday cake today). This after no cokes for almost a year.
  • yusaku02
    yusaku02 Posts: 3,472 Member
    Alluminati wrote: »
    It means you are transforming into a unicorn.
    I bought 3 packs of Surge off of Amazon a while back. Then I realized I don't drink soda anymore.
    Shortly afterwards I started growing a horn and a tail.
  • Kexessa
    Kexessa Posts: 346 Member
    My son had some Hostess cupcakes the other day and I was ohhhh let me have a bite of one. I hadn't had one in probably 5 + years. Very chemical tasting and yucky. I do think our tastes can change over time.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    When your palate changes, things you used to like a lot taste very different. Pepsi is syrupy when it used to be good. Frozen dinners are salty when they used to taste good.

    But! Fruit tastes much sweeter and will seem as rewarding as candy used to seem.

    Up and down sides. :)
  • Azexas
    Azexas Posts: 4,334 Member
    Kexessa wrote: »
    My son had some Hostess cupcakes the other day and I was ohhhh let me have a bite of one. I hadn't had one in probably 5 + years. Very chemical tasting and yucky. I do think our tastes can change over time.

    That happened to me the last time I tried to eat swiss rolls.

    I agree I think our palate changes over time and maybe when we don't have something as frequent we become a little more sensitive to it.
  • kthompson601
    kthompson601 Posts: 174 Member
    It is pretty amazing how once you acclimate to something new, or you avoid something you used to eat too much of, your old tastes change. For example: Back before I started counting calories, I loved to get pancakes drenched in syrup at a famous 24-hour chain. I didn't realize that I was easily gobbling more than a thousand calories, just for breakfast! So when I started watching my calories, for several months I didn't go there. One day I decided to work it into my calories as a treat, so I got a small stack of buttermilk pancakes and asked for sugar-free syrup. I took a bite of the pancakes and actually grimaced--all I could taste was salt! Without smothering my pancakes in high-calorie syrup, I realized that the food I used to think was really tasty, was actually nothing but salt!

    Now, if I want pancakes, I make my own!
  • rushfive
    rushfive Posts: 603 Member
    Assume it is just your taste changing.
    Soda is to syrupy to me.
    Take out is to salty.
    I did fast food the other day, and thought I would enjoy it... nope ...tasted terrible and threw out most of it. Even the French fries were to salty.
    I am hoping when I go to a quality restaurant the food doesn't taste wrong to me.. that would be sad. :o
  • CSARdiver
    CSARdiver Posts: 6,252 Member
    I noticed this after being outside the US for a good deal of time, when I came back I noticed how sweet and salty everything was.

    You just reset your taste buds, nothing more.
  • yusaku02
    yusaku02 Posts: 3,472 Member
    Azexas wrote: »
    Kexessa wrote: »
    My son had some Hostess cupcakes the other day and I was ohhhh let me have a bite of one. I hadn't had one in probably 5 + years. Very chemical tasting and yucky. I do think our tastes can change over time.

    That happened to me the last time I tried to eat swiss rolls.

    I agree I think our palate changes over time and maybe when we don't have something as frequent we become a little more sensitive to it.
    Wait.... does this mean I don't love Zebra Cakes anymore? B-Because I'm not ready for that...
  • Azexas
    Azexas Posts: 4,334 Member
    yusaku02 wrote: »
    Azexas wrote: »
    Kexessa wrote: »
    My son had some Hostess cupcakes the other day and I was ohhhh let me have a bite of one. I hadn't had one in probably 5 + years. Very chemical tasting and yucky. I do think our tastes can change over time.

    That happened to me the last time I tried to eat swiss rolls.

    I agree I think our palate changes over time and maybe when we don't have something as frequent we become a little more sensitive to it.
    Wait.... does this mean I don't love Zebra Cakes anymore? B-Because I'm not ready for that...

    I think you're good if you keep eating them. Just don't take a break! Zebra cakes every day!...speaking of which I haven't had one of those in a long time...now I'm afraid to eat one and have it taste different
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    still love my soda
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    of course it makes since...the human palate is pretty adaptable...when you don't have something for a long time, it's going to taste different to you than when you used to eat it all of the time...it works the other way around too...I was out of the country for a couple months several years ago and ate some pretty unfamiliar things for which I was initially not all that fond of...by the time I got back home I was craving those things because my palate had grown accustomed to the tastes and complexities.

    when I started out a few years ago I cut back on salt...i still salt my food and whatnot, but I cut way back on processed foods and eating out, etc in order to reduce my sodium intake for hypertension reasons. It has kind of ruined eating out for me now because even when I go to a really nice restaurant, pretty much everything on the menu tastes like a sodium bomb where as I'm more or less used to tasting the actual flavors of the food with maybe a little salt and other seasonings. Every time I leave a restaurant I feel like I need to consume a gallon of water.
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