Can you smell the carbs?
swezeytba
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So I'm at work and my co-worker just heated up her lunch. I don't know what it is, but just from the smell I can tell that it is something very carby.....Potatoes or noodles if I had to narrow it down....
I wonder if our sense of smell becomes sensitized as well? Any thoughts?
I wonder if our sense of smell becomes sensitized as well? Any thoughts?
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I think smell gets sensitized the same as taste does - when my wife or daughter have something that contains lots of sugar all I can smell is cotton candy - even standard cake frosting smells like cotton candy to me now (wanted to add) and it re-enforces my desire to NOT eat that crap.5
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I have found my sense of smell, but more so my sense of taste is much better now. For the last 23-24 years or so (which was how long ago I broke my nose for the 3rd time), I have had a poor sense of smell and my sense of taste was somewhat muted. Now, I can eat something new and really taste the ingredients. This has helped me reverse engineer some foods I have had at restaurants that I liked but wanted to make at home - usually with some modifications for my personal taste.1
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I've become more sensitive to the smell of fat. I know I used to smell fast foods joints, but it's more intense and delicious now.2
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I actually just gagged at the smell of marshmallow fluff a little bit ago. We have a fondue thing for birthdays at work today, and it was among the stuff. Overpowering as all get out.2
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Dragonwolf wrote: »I actually just gagged at the smell of marshmallow fluff a little bit ago. We have a fondue thing for birthdays at work today, and it was among the stuff. Overpowering as all get out.
LOL....Been awhile since I've been around any of that I guess.....Who knew it had such a strong smell! 0 -
Zucchini tasted super sweet to me the other day. And cabbage, too. Not missing the donuts and pop I used to have all too often!2
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Zucchini tasted super sweet to me the other day. And cabbage, too. Not missing the donuts and pop I used to have all too often!
I also noticed some foods tasted sweet after not eating carbs for a while - i.e. celery, cashews (which I generally don't eat because they are higher carb than I like). I think the taste buds for sweet get numbed for most people because of the overload of sweet foods out there. It is like an alcoholic who needs more alcohol to get a buzz. Carboholics need more sweet to be able to taste sweet.1 -
My sister-in-law has been following a (semi) low carb diet....definitely not keto, but she said she has always like Miracle Whip but it's now too sweet for her.1
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If I walk down the candy aisle I can. It just smells like powdered, too sweet yuck.4
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I can totally smell it. Bananas are overpowering. I regularly set up workshop snax with muffins and biscuits and lollies and the sugar smell is so strong. My co-workers think I'm weird, they can't smell it.1
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I have a very poor sense of smell, but lately anything sweet is starting to smell sickly and I am totally going off most sweets and leaning towards savouries instead.
Funny thing about carbs: I love crisps OMG they are my downfall, but lately they do not taste that good. I might have stolen a few off my colleagues, but the flavours are not as I recall them. I can only describe it as ordering a glass of fizzy drink and being served a flat one? If that makes sense?1 -
I have a very poor sense of smell, but lately anything sweet is starting to smell sickly and I am totally going off most sweets and leaning towards savouries instead.
Funny thing about carbs: I love crisps OMG they are my downfall, but lately they do not taste that good. I might have stolen a few off my colleagues, but the flavours are not as I recall them. I can only describe it as ordering a glass of fizzy drink and being served a flat one? If that makes sense?
Totally makes sense. I would compare it to when I smoked. Then after not smoking for a while, I was playing poker with the guys and having a few beers and figured I would have a cigarette. It was the nastiest thing I ever tasted. I couldn't believe I had ever smoked.5 -
I have had this love affair with crisps since I was a child, I was expecting to go off sweet stuff once I went low carbs but not that my tastebuds would change so much that my favourite treat now is no longer that special. I am down to well salted popcorn only, the last old treat that I have yet to go off. But even popcorn is no longer irresistible. I can totally go to the cinema without any cravings at all. This comes from me who used to have her own popcorn maker!
Low carb should come with a warning:
Warning: your old treats will start tasting like rubbish in no time3 -
Yes, definitely. I'm slowly transitioning to low carb - (started limiting to 100g last week, 75g this week.. end goal of 25g). Today my friend heated up her white rice and it was so pungent.0
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A coworker brought in homemade mac n cheese the other day. He put a little ketchup on it and even though I was nowhere near all I could smell was the sweet ketchup. Nobody could get over how I could smell it. I was in the next room complaining how the place stunk of ketchup...lol0
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cstehansen wrote: »Zucchini tasted super sweet to me the other day. And cabbage, too. Not missing the donuts and pop I used to have all too often!
I also noticed some foods tasted sweet after not eating carbs for a while - i.e. celery, cashews (which I generally don't eat because they are higher carb than I like). I think the taste buds for sweet get numbed for most people because of the overload of sweet foods out there. It is like an alcoholic who needs more alcohol to get a buzz. Carboholics need more sweet to be able to taste sweet.
Yes, definitely! I noticed the sweetness in veggies coming out so much more once I'd been keto for a few weeks.0 -
The cake mixes aisle in the grocery store just about knocked me out yesterday. (I was headed to the end for the super-dark, yummy straight-up chocolate). Absolutely think sense of smell is heightened.0
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So not true for me, darn it! LOL
I'm like my mother who gave up smoking. She used to siddle up to people with a cigarette and just breathe deeply. LOL I still love my sweets and sugars. They still taste all too wonderful... But I must admit the sweet does smell and taste a bit sweeter now. I am a sugar lover so that doesn't seem bad to me.
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I had a McDonald's hazelnut coffee and McGriddle the other day but I felt nauseous from all the sugar.0
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So after reading this thread yesterday, I was in the store with my BF. Walking down the baking aisle to get to the dark chocolate chips, I could definitely smell all the sugar. I laughed and told him about this thread. Apparently it's something he has always been able to smell, since he doesn't eat as much sweets as I used to.1
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I went to a family lunch, mom's and sister's birthday meal, at the Outback. The carb smells (fries, mac and cheese and their bread) almost had me walking back out the door, I just tried to forget about it. Then they both had carrot cake for dessert, I almost gagged it smelled so sweet and they both thought it was "wonderful". I am a salty person not sweets so no surprise there. I used to love the smell of bread especially, not so much now. They set the bread right in front of me and I didn't even look at it much less want a slice.0
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I still love "all the smells". I like the supermarkets that "pipe" the bakery air to the front of the store so it encourages people to purchase from the bakery. I love the sweet smell of the cookie aisle. I even still like the smell of a freshly lit cigarette. For a few years I was one of those former smokers who intentionally hovered around the smoking crowd to experience smoking vicariously. Love that smell. The smell in my clothes later, not so much. It's a different smell.
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I, too, can smell the sugar in the candy aisle and pastry section of the bakery. I was a big time sugar-fiend in my pre-LCHF days. The smell of sugar does not turn me off though...it's my guilty pleasure. Even if I can't eat it any longer, at least I still get to enjoy the lovely smell of pure sugar in all its various forms! LOL0
