Our taste buds change.

Yes this is very true, and the best part is you can change your preferences via your taste-buds. years ago I realized I was eating too much sugar, and happened to read a book called 'Sugar Blues' about all the bad things sugar can do to you. So I decided to go sugar free for 3 weeks. Now this is harder than it sounds because everything you buy, (Like ketchup, bread, and even salt,) has some sugar included. So I went for 3 weeks sugar free, and at the end of that time I found to my amazement that I no longer needed sugar on my Grapefruit because it was naturally sweet! My taste-buds had adjusted and I no longer craved sugar!

I'm sorry for your loss! As a baby I wouldn't eat. I have been a picky eater ever since. The one thing that Has changed is my dislike of Three Musketeers bar. As a kid it was my favorite candy bar. I wouldn't eat anything else. Then I reached my 20's and I stopped eating it . I turned to the pure stuff, Hershey's symphony bar. Last year I thought I would try a Three Musketeers bar. Well I hated it! my palette had changed!

I think that you are completely right, our taste buds do change and mature with us over the years and I too am a firm believer in bringing children up to taste all foods - I have been rewarded from having is principle in having 5 children and 10 grandchildren who are a pleasure to take out to dine as they will eat and try anything. I know that when I hot married (40 years ago now) my husband hadn't been used to as wide a range of foods as I had and he didn't like the tast of garlic and if we went out to eat inan Indian or Chinese restaurant he would always choose the English options. However now he loves garlic in food and is willing to try anything and enjoys a varied diet now.

I have change in taste after I got married :) Before, I like sweet and no hot foods. But now, I cook for my husband everyday. He likes hot and salt foods. So, I have changed following him.

Our taste buds never stop changing some stay the same and others will just keep changing and changing. I remember certain foods as kid that I liked and now I don't. I hate arachocks but when I was little I used to love them. Of course your taste for food changes a bit when pregnant and after as well. But that is why they do tell parents to get your kids young with things and because yes one week they can hate something and the next love it. Some times how one person cooks something you don't like it but when another person does it you love it. I can't eat any sandwiches that I make because I don't know why they taste bad but if anyone else does them I'll eat them. My daughter she hates turkey bacon and will only take the real thing but me and my husband like both. We keep trying to give it to her to see if she'll end up liking it. I know my daughter hates strawberries with sugar and she only likes the one form the store we shop at any where else and she won't eat them. She is 15 months so some times she likes things and rather eating it she likes to play with it some times when she isn't hungry. It's hard to tell when she is or isn't hungry some days because she does have to eat like me every few hours so I try not to get made at her if she doesn't eat her meals but if she tries something new I'm always proud of her. I rather her play with her food then throw it all around.

Yeah, taste buds change as you get older to i think. When i was a kid i was a very picky eater and now i still am a little but, theres alot of things i would have never ever thought about that i now eat. Like i hated pork chops and now i can eat them once in a while. Also, i hated yogert as a kid now i eat it almost everyday.

True.We get used to certain types of food after a time. I never used to eat too many sweets before marriage and sweets made with jaggery instead of sugar were not my favourites.But all this totally changed after marriage.Now I have a sweet tooth and eat all sweets.Only thing is I have to watch my weight and I don't make too many at home because my husband is diabetic now.

I notice it too when my friends and even my kids complained about my cooking. I used to cooked for them, my friends loves my recipe and normally when we have to meet ups they also like that I will be the one to prepared food for us. But there was a time when they ask me if im in not feeling well because my food is not like before, sometimes its too salty and sometimes its tasteless. I remember when i stop eating fast food and restaurant food with lots of sodium i began to lessen the salt in my dishes. That's make me changed my taste buds.

While I haven't lost my taste for ice cream , since I've moved south I find that I've acquited a taste for hot & spicy foods. Probably since they are more readily available where I now live. If I had to choose between cold & sweet or hot & spicy, I'd probably choose the latter.

I have found that my taste buds have changed some over the last few years, but I really can't pinpoint those to a specific change that has occurred in my life. For example, I used to be the kind of person that didn't like broccoli, but now it is something that I love and even crave a lot of the time. Another example of a food that I didn't used to like but that I really like now is sushi. I would eat California rolls all the time if they were offered to me.

Indeed, that is rather the truth of the matter, as we age, our taste buds tend to alter. And alter really again as we are going to really age pretty much any more to say the least. Of course, there are times where in earlier years, I went through phases of things that I ate quite often. I don't know if I got sickened out or my taste buds changed, but I did not really like them. I really used to like French Fries to the point where I ate them a few times a week, home cooked. Now, not really so much. Now granted, its not that I don't like them but there is just something about them where I am not inclined to eat them each and every week, every other day. Pick them up once or twice perhaps for lunch about every four to six months and that's really good enough for me.

Yeah, I agree- maybe as we grow old, we might prefer different foods. My parents made me eat different stuff, they made me try everything from the food pyramid.. At first i hated veggies, raisins and mushrooms but then i like them now.

I think it's one way of our body to tell or warn us of what we still need or can tolerate, I would like to think that our bodies have all sorts of biological time clocks and alarms incorporated in our genes..

My taste buds have changed over the course of the years. Foods I once loved as a child I no longer enjoy as much, and foods I hated as a child I now enjoy with great delight. A long time ago, I read someone where online, although I don't remember where that our taste buds, change in cycles our 7 years or something like that. I'll have to see if I can find the article again.

I think that is interesting. I found when I ate two donuts or more every day when my dad owned a donut shop when I was in high school that I really liked them, but then I started craving salty foods. There was probably a year or more after that when I couldn't even look at a donut. Not quite the same thing, but close. Tastes do change. Especially with chemo. Have a great week!!!

Mine is different. Because I used to drink 10 or more mugs of coffee everyday, coffee has a different effect to me. Whenever I drink coffee, I feel so sleepy. It's weird for all my officemates drink coffee so that they'll not fall asleep during office hours. With regard to its taste, it's still the same.

That's so true. I remembered that when I was a kid, I guess 7 to 9 years old, I was so fond of eating baby food - those that my younger sister wouldn't eat. My mother bought cerelac boxes, but my baby sister wouldn't take them, so I was the one who gulped it all down. Then, when I had my first baby, I also bought a few boxes for her which she didn't like. So, I opened 1 of the boxes and prepared it for myself, but to my surprise it didn't taste as good as before. I'm sure it's not the taste that changed, but my tastebuds. There are a lot of kid food that I used to enjoy, but I no longer enjoy them like I used to. But, icecream? It's a lifetime partner, for me...