One data point here: I think of myself as a subsupertaster—most sensitivity to bitterness than most people, less than serious supertasters. I don’t like grapefruit or coffee. I can sort of enjoy tea, especially the milder ones, but I don’t get around to making it for myself. If I add enough milk and sugar to coffee to make it palatable, a cup gives me an upset stomach. I don’t like the taste of alcohol. Does that go with being a supertaster?
On the other hand, I can handle most leafy green vegetables. When I was a kid, I didn’t like endive, but I haven’t had it for a while.
My tolerance for bitter flavors has increased over the years. I’m 60, and I’m not sure when the shift happened. Probably past age 40. I’m more tolerant of textures (like orange pulp in orange juice, or cooked raisins) that I hated when I was a kid.
I used to hate olives, but now I can handle most olives and rather like the mild ones.
I’ve also gotten used to peanuts and peanut butter.
What’s with the formatting of that page? It insists on taking up most of the width of my screen. If I make it wider than about 3⁄4 of my screen, it makes the lines of texts longer to take up the extra space, but if I make the window smaller than about 3⁄4 of my screen, it keeps the lines the same length. and I have to scroll to see the whole thing.
Imagine the food you hate the most in the world. Now imagine that half the food in the world is made up of that food—imagine there are whole restaurants dedicated to that food, that half the food available in any given restaurant is that food. Imagine you’ve spent your entire life being mocked and punished for not eating it because everyone else does. That is my world.
One data point here: I think of myself as a subsupertaster—most sensitivity to bitterness than most people, less than serious supertasters. I don’t like grapefruit or coffee. I can sort of enjoy tea, especially the milder ones, but I don’t get around to making it for myself. If I add enough milk and sugar to coffee to make it palatable, a cup gives me an upset stomach. I don’t like the taste of alcohol. Does that go with being a supertaster?
On the other hand, I can handle most leafy green vegetables. When I was a kid, I didn’t like endive, but I haven’t had it for a while.
My tolerance for bitter flavors has increased over the years. I’m 60, and I’m not sure when the shift happened. Probably past age 40. I’m more tolerant of textures (like orange pulp in orange juice, or cooked raisins) that I hated when I was a kid.
I used to hate olives, but now I can handle most olives and rather like the mild ones.
I’ve also gotten used to peanuts and peanut butter.
Supertaster hell
Taste buds die as one ages. Try revisiting some foods.
What’s with the formatting of that page? It insists on taking up most of the width of my screen. If I make it wider than about 3⁄4 of my screen, it makes the lines of texts longer to take up the extra space, but if I make the window smaller than about 3⁄4 of my screen, it keeps the lines the same length. and I have to scroll to see the whole thing.
Huh.