Are your taste buds changing ?

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  • melonaulait
    melonaulait Posts: 769 Member
    I haven't craved cheese at all. It's weird because I used to be the biggest cheese lover around and loved putting cheese on everything.

    Now I sometimes eat stuff with plant based cheese on it (like a couple times a month), but I don't even crave that stuff even though I like the taste of it.

    Also, I don't miss eating any candy... I'll sometimes eat a bite of licorice or some chocolate, but I used to wanna eat candy all the time too in the past.
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    I discovered I don't like Canadian potato chips anymore. Too salty! And that's from someone who likes her salt. :)

    Blasphemy! I'd offer to take your share of the potato chips, but it's never really been my weakness.

    OP, I learned to drink tea without milk or sugar, whereas I couldn't stomach it without those things before. Although I still enjoy it when I do add them, I just found that calorie-wise, it wasn't worth it for me anymore. I do enjoy fish now, where I never used to, but I have to make sauces for it. I'm not sure if that is something that changed with aging in general though, because it happened years ago and unrelated to dieting. I think our food preferences can change with time, depending on what you consume.
  • WrenTheCoffeeAddict
    WrenTheCoffeeAddict Posts: 148 Member
    Completely. I used to snack a lot, on sweet stuff and high fat content stuff.
    I recalled, one day, walking home and feeling peckish, and realising that my cravings were not for sweet stuff, or fatty stuff. I fancied some chicken breast, maybe a small portion of pasta and pesto. I started thinking about my tastebuds, and tried picturing some of those snacks I used to eat, and had no emotive response at all.
  • tomteboda
    tomteboda Posts: 2,171 Member
    My tastes have not changed. I can even say that holding to long-term denial diets didn't change my tastes either. I still like a very wide variety of food. I work with this by making sure I meet my nutritional goals as early as possible in the day, leaving me free to enjoy the rest of my calories however I wish.
  • oolou
    oolou Posts: 765 Member
    I'm more aware of food that has added salt or sugar. If I eat a sugary dessert I literally start to giggle while eating it. I had an eton mess a couple weeks ago (broken up meringue, whipped cream, strawberries, all mixed together) and reeeeeeeeeeeeally enjoyed it.
  • kazminchu
    kazminchu Posts: 250 Member
    Kind of.
    I now enjoy eating healthy foods, I love veg and fresh, homecooked foods.
    But, I absolutely still love "bad" foods. I still dream about churros, cakes, biscuits, cheesy snacks.
    I was hoping I'd be able to train myself not to crave or love these processed and sugary foods, but nope. So I guess my tastes have just widened as opposed to shifted.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    The only difference for me is that I'm way more sensitive to sodium now.
  • mitch16
    mitch16 Posts: 2,113 Member
    I wonder if it's just part of the aging process? When I was younger I could not stand plain black coffee (which my parents drank every day) or unsweetened seltzer/soda water... Now they're not so bad.
  • not_my_first_rodeo
    not_my_first_rodeo Posts: 311 Member
    Oh, they totally change. I eat food with way less salt now. A coworker baked the other day and I had the calories left so I had one of her cookies and it was almost too sweet.
  • kitkatlp
    kitkatlp Posts: 93 Member
    mitch16 wrote: »
    I wonder if it's just part of the aging process? When I was younger I could not stand plain black coffee (which my parents drank every day) or unsweetened seltzer/soda water... Now they're not so bad.

    I guess there's an element of that too. For some reason, I don't eat much red meat these days because I just don't feel like it...(well, the problem is that I do need the iron though!) But that was a process that started a long time before getting into a healthier lifestyle. ;)

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