What your taste buds get used to
hmhill17
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There was a time, the thought of eating plain Greek yogurt straight would have left a bad taste in my mouth. Today I caught myself licking it off the spoon I used to put some in my lunch.
What's your food like that?
What's your food like that?
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I once put kale in my protein shake... sometimes I don't like the person I've become.8
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As we mature, our taste buds develop. You're more willing to try new foods. I've also found that since I started eating pescatarian, my taste buds have changed dramatically. I lean much more towards foods like fish and produce. I no longer eat candy and just don't want it.
My food that I wouldn't eat previously was beets. I've tried red beets before and was disgusted. It was like chewing on blood clots. 😝
I buy two new foods every time I go grocery shopping. I decided to try gold beets. I love them! Plus, they're beautiful on the inside.
Still won't eat kale.
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There was a time, the thought of eating plain Greek yogurt straight would have left a bad taste in my mouth. Today I caught myself licking it off the spoon I used to put some in my lunch.
What's your food like that?
I like greek yogurt for the protein but I have to doctor it up and, even then, it leaves this filmy taste on my teeth.
But, apparently, bananas!
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I'm starting to like cauliflower. It is something I have tried on and off my whole life but never like until this year.0
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I do believe in "acquired tastes".
For me, coffee was a big one. A few years ago, I couldn't stand it.
Now, I can't function without it.3 -
I once put kale in my protein shake... sometimes I don't like the person I've become.
Then you composted it, right? TELL ME YOU COMPOSTED IT!
I have adapted myself (maybe too much) to volume eating. Now if I see a burger I am wondering how many bowls/plates of low calorie food items I could eat for the same calories.
The biggest surprise for me was steamed vegetables. I would have declared you crazy if 2 years ago you predicted I would eat and enjoy steamed vegetables. Roasted sure. Raw, in many cases, sure. Steamed NEVER!
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As we mature, our taste buds develop. You're more willing to try new foods. I've also found that since I started eating pescatarian, my taste buds have changed dramatically. I lean much more towards foods like fish and produce. I no longer eat candy and just don't want it.
My food that I wouldn't eat previously was beets. I've tried red beets before and was disgusted. It was like chewing on blood clots. 😝
I buy two new foods every time I go grocery shopping. I decided to try gold beets. I love them! Plus, they're beautiful on the inside.
Still won't eat kale.
Oh my, those visuals are truly to behold. Thanks @LyndaBSS ! Haha
For me it was avocados, wasn't keen at all. Now I love them! To be fair though, my very first one was probably not even ripe.1 -
The biggest surprise for me was steamed vegetables. I would have declared you crazy if 2 years ago you predicted I would eat and enjoy steamed vegetables. Roasted sure. Raw, in many cases, sure. Steamed NEVER!
Those of use who grew up with vegetables steamed to death only to discover what a properly steamed veggie is supposed to be understand this.
Roasted is still better.
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I got off soda a year ago (kidney stone and doctor recommended it). I can not stand the taste of it anymore. It is heavy and you can taste the sugar. Yuck! I used to think salad's were bland. Now I LOVE them. I am eating cherry tomatoes from my garden with red onions right now and I am loving it very much. I used not not like water so much but now I drink it every day.1
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Also, I can not eat a fast meal anymore. If you put a hamburger and fries in front of me I could only eat half if that and I'd feel sick.2
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I acquired a taste for cilantro. (I don't have the gene that makes it taste like soap.)
Much to my mother's consternation, I've lost my taste for brown rice.1 -
As we mature, our taste buds develop.
Yeah, this. So my foods like that are mainly very spicy ones, that I now love, but found intolerable back when I was a child. I also love and crave many vegetables that I found merely tolerable as a kid. Part of the latter is that I cook them better than my mom did, but mostly it's the palate changing with age and experience. I also love olives and I think as a kid I thought they were weird and icky. When I first started drinking coffee in college I loved the smell but found the taste disappointing unless it was half milk, and now I love it black. I hated beer when I first tried it (granted it was horrible beer) and grew to enjoy it, as well as wine, which I'm sure I would have disliked too, but I don't drink anymore so that's not the best example.
I haven't found that my palate has changed since losing weight, but I ate a mostly homecooked diet with lots of veg and some fruit even then. Plain greek yogurt has always tasted good to me (don't think I had greek as a kid, but plain yogurt was tasty to me then). Sometimes it's just getting rid of preconceptions.0 -
You can also retrain your taste buds. Go a few weeks without adding salt to foods and you will find you prefer your foods less salty. Same thing with sweets, go a while without eating something sweet and foods you used to love will taste too sweet to you.5
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You can also retrain your taste buds. Go a few weeks without adding salt to foods and you will find you prefer your foods less salty. Same thing with sweets, go a while without eating something sweet and foods you used to love will taste too sweet to you.
I notice things that are too salty now. Sweets, I only wish that would happen. I don’t think it’s possible. Ice water is my drink of choice now. Still like a diet pop now and then, but water and pop have changed places in preference for beverages. Still dislike quinoa, tomatoes, mushrooms, kale and zucchini.0 -
There are many things I didn’t like as a child or when I was younger that I like or even love now including:
Avocado
Mushrooms
Kombucha
Eggs
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Curry, unbuttered anything, sardines, plain vegetables and salads. I have really odd aste buds from eating the way I have. For example fish oil and Green Magma barley grass-
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You can also retrain your taste buds. Go a few weeks without adding salt to foods and you will find you prefer your foods less salty. Same thing with sweets, go a while without eating something sweet and foods you used to love will taste too sweet to you.
Yes, I used to eat a lot of Peppermint Patties and now find them too sweet.0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »You can also retrain your taste buds. Go a few weeks without adding salt to foods and you will find you prefer your foods less salty. Same thing with sweets, go a while without eating something sweet and foods you used to love will taste too sweet to you.
Yes, I used to eat a lot of Peppermint Patties and now find them too sweet.
I can't eat a chocolate bar, no matter how good the chocolate is. Too much sweetness. I also find oranges too sweet so I mostly eat grapefruit when I want something citrus. I peel and eat them just like you would an orange.1 -
I consider myself one of those people who started eating much healthier but still really likes all the junk food, fast food, etc, on the occasions I do indulge!
Some things are still awesome to me - burgers in general, pepperoni pizza, chocolate, cream gravy on chicken fried steak...
But there are plenty I no longer have much interest or "taste for" fries, nuggets, snack cakes (such as Hostess or Little Debbie), or most cake, cobbler, muffins...so many desserts I'm just not that into now, but give me some rhubarb pie or dark chocolate and I still love it just as much as ever.
Some of the healthier stuff I've really started to love:
Black coffee
Eggs are now a TOP favorite food whereas in the past they were just ok
Most vegetables - but notably radishes, carrots, snap peas, cauliflower and broccoli. I've always liked broccoli but now I MUST have it several times per week.
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I feel like I ought to duck when I say this, but I used to not like peanut butter (because of the texture - I liked the flavor). Sometime in the last few years, I intentionally taught myself to like it, and now eat it pretty much every day.6
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kshama2001 wrote: »You can also retrain your taste buds. Go a few weeks without adding salt to foods and you will find you prefer your foods less salty. Same thing with sweets, go a while without eating something sweet and foods you used to love will taste too sweet to you.
Yes, I used to eat a lot of Peppermint Patties and now find them too sweet.
I can't eat a chocolate bar, no matter how good the chocolate is. Too much sweetness. I also find oranges too sweet so I mostly eat grapefruit when I want something citrus. I peel and eat them just like you would an orange.
Have you tried the darker bars that have cacao percentages in the 70s and 80s?1 -
I’ve started to like plain Greek yogurt too. I used to find it too tart but last time I had it it was like eating whipped cream! I love putting sliced strawberries in it. Also I used to pick olives off of pizza and now I like them. I specifically buy them to put on my pizza!0
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duskyjewel wrote: »kshama2001 wrote: »You can also retrain your taste buds. Go a few weeks without adding salt to foods and you will find you prefer your foods less salty. Same thing with sweets, go a while without eating something sweet and foods you used to love will taste too sweet to you.
Yes, I used to eat a lot of Peppermint Patties and now find them too sweet.
I can't eat a chocolate bar, no matter how good the chocolate is. Too much sweetness. I also find oranges too sweet so I mostly eat grapefruit when I want something citrus. I peel and eat them just like you would an orange.
Have you tried the darker bars that have cacao percentages in the 70s and 80s?
Yes and they are not very good.1 -
kshama2001 wrote: »I acquired a taste for cilantro. (I don't have the gene that makes it taste like soap.)
Much to my mother's consternation, I've lost my taste for brown rice.
I do have the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap. Because I love food from cuisines that use it a lot, and because you can't always get food made without, I eventually learned to tolerate it. It doesn't taste good to me now. It doesn't taste like anything.
It's as though my brain has stopped reacting to the sensory information that cilantro is in food. Like you can tune out a background noise, or you can get used to a odor in your house from cooking fish and not smell it anymore (but if you leave for a while and come back, you smell it again).
If I really think it about when I'm eating someone with cilantro, it still tastes like soap. So I try not to really think about it.
When I cook something from a recipe that calls for cilantro, I leave it out unless I'm cooking for other people who all like it. Why waste money on something where the best-case scenario is that I won't taste it?
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As we mature, our taste buds develop.
Yeah, this. So my foods like that are mainly very spicy ones, that I now love, but found intolerable back when I was a child. I also love and crave many vegetables that I found merely tolerable as a kid. Part of the latter is that I cook them better than my mom did, but mostly it's the palate changing with age and experience. I also love olives and I think as a kid I thought they were weird and icky. When I first started drinking coffee in college I loved the smell but found the taste disappointing unless it was half milk, and now I love it black. I hated beer when I first tried it (granted it was horrible beer) and grew to enjoy it, as well as wine, which I'm sure I would have disliked too, but I don't drink anymore so that's not the best example.
I haven't found that my palate has changed since losing weight, but I ate a mostly homecooked diet with lots of veg and some fruit even then. Plain greek yogurt has always tasted good to me (don't think I had greek as a kid, but plain yogurt was tasty to me then). Sometimes it's just getting rid of preconceptions.
Sounds so much like me. I love very spicy food now, the hotter, the better. In the past, i couldn't stand anything even slightly spicy. Vegetables- all kinds, anyway you cook them, baked, grilled, steamed, sauteed, or raw. Love raw beets, broccoli, carrots, radishes, peppers, snap peas, celery. I definitely cook them better than my mom ever did. I use many herbs and spices, makes it interesting and easy to adapt to the desired taste. Olives- could not stand the taste as a child. Same with oatmeal, made me gag, now my breakfast staple. Black coffee, no sugar. Used to be lots of sugar and half-and-half. Same with tea, unsweetened only now. Also, lost taste for fried food. And butter.1 -
Sweet potatoes. I always hated them because they were too sweet (every way I'd ever been offered them was with marshmallows, brown sugar, etc. added). Recently discovered that when they're prepared any way involving Mexican spices/toppings, I love them. The spicy balances the sweet and is just delicious!3
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Coffee with less and less additions. Started with lots of flavored creamers, on top of flavored beans, and then splenda on top of that. Now I'm making my cups with HWC, half the splenda I used to add and then I'm currently alternating flavored beans with unflavored beans. My goal is to eventually do away with the flavored beans and splenda, (I do add pink salt as a supplement as well and that will continue).
Other things-I used to only eat white chicken meat (breasts usually). Slowly worked in dark meat and now I prefer it (cheaper too!). And then I'm working on adding organ meats to my carnivore way of eating and have gotten used to the flavor of Braunschweiger sausage, I'm eating it daily right now. Next step is chicken livers, which I've bought before but haven't gotten up the nerve to actually try yet lol.1 -
I used to hate onions. Started loving onion rings, and then started adding diced onions, and now I just love them.
I can't do Hershey's Milk Chocolate anymore. I still like milk chocolate in general, but something about those bars has an off taste to them now. I used to love them as a child. The Hershey's Special Dark is still good, they taste like how I used to think the milk chocolate tasted.0 -
As a kid / teenager, I hated any vegetable that was "different". I only liked the basics... broccoli, cauliflower, cucumber, carrots, etc. But now I love them ALL.
I also like horseradish, caesars w/ extra spice and saurkraut. Never thought I'd try them, but now I LOVE them!0
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