Has anyone found that a food or drink becomes unpleasant to them?

(Norma Laming) #1

I’ve recently found that the taste of coffee is really unpleasant! The only coffee I can drink is at my hairdresser and that is so mild and out of machine that isn’t really coffee at all. I used to love coffee out of my Aero press and could never imagine going without: now I simply can’t bear it, whether it’s ground coffee or instant.

Also I recently realised that tea is not pleasant to me. I drink both coffee and tea with cream and but I’ve tried them black and that’s no better.

So now I’m drinking water and jasmine tea, which is made with white tea.

I’m so disappointed about this because my daily coffees wete something I enjoyed a lot. I will just be interested to see whether going without coffee makes me feel happier / calmer or helps sustain weight loss. I haven’t had any withdrawal symptoms but I do miss the enjoyment that I used to have that I used to have.

Anyone else?

#2

This is an incredibly interesting observation. Thanks for posting it @Hermione.

I definitely have observed a change in preferences for food and drink tastes. Many foods can taste too sweet, ‘sickeningly sweet’. And foods that I once thought bland have developed a pleasant sweetness, such as a rare carrot, or some red capsicum (what do Americans call it?.. pepper).

The main thing I have noticed is an almost synesthetic transformation from ‘tasting food’ in my mouth to ‘sensing food’ through smelling it with my nose. A complete shift from one bodily sense to another.

Especially with wines and foods like cheeses, or recipes cooked with aromatic herbs and spices. I get so much pleasure from smelling the food. It seems to then help me appreciate and savour the offering. In turn slowing my consumption to fully appreciate the sensations. So it has changed how I eat and drink.

These days I don’t drink wine. But if someone opens a nice bottle or two of wine at a social event, my friends understand that I am that strange person that will ask to sniff their wine glass. (How to spot a ketogenic eater?) Sometimes I pour a splash into a large bulb glass and just sniff the wine throughout the meal. I tell the curious onlookers that it is the slowest way to ‘drink’ a glass of wine, using evaporation :wink: .Often if I do taste the wine, it is a let down, as the flavour stands not up to the bouquet.

I still drink coffee. Just in the morning. Coffee is a different experience without milk (or sugar). These days even cream carries enough lactose sweetness to balance the layers of flavour in a good coffee. But I spend a lot of time snuffling the ground, roasted beans. The coffee taste is OK, but not as rich as the bouquet. That roasted bitterness (is it an umami flavour) mixed in the cream is still pleasant.

(John) #3

I used to like diet Coke. I used to drink a lot of it. Now I can’t stand it. Tastes like chemicals.

I still like coffee. I will drink, but don’t really enjoy, black tea. I always took my coffee black but needed a little milk and sugar in my hot tea. However, I really enjoy green tea and herbal tisanes, so I usually go with those.

I’ve found new things that I didn’t like before that I like now: avocados, for example. And blackberries.

Almond milk! Where was that magic elixir all my life?? That stuff is great - unsweetened almond milk. I don’t miss cow’s milk at all. It may have always tasted great, I had just never tried it before.

I haven’t gone back and tried any of the high carb foods that I used to eat to see if their taste has changed.

#4

Not only have I found some food too unpleasant to eat (mostly sweet foods), but foods I DO enjoy, I find myself chewing on them longer, and savoring the flavors more!

:yum: :drooling_face: :yum: :drooling_face:

(Carl Keller) #5

This is indeed a sad thing to hear. Making coffee is like the second thing I do every morning and I wouldn’t know how to act if I started hating the taste of it. On the contrary, I have been lucky enough to like it without all the sugar and cream I used to put in it before I started Keto. I still indulge in a few grams of stevia, a teaspoon of CO and a dash of cinnamon.

I wonder if you might try a milder bean. There’s some really tasty Jamaican and Hawaiian blends that are really smooth. When friends or family ask what I want for my birthday, this is usually what I ask for.

(Omar) #6

Vegetables

Caffeine

(Norma Laming) #7

Thanks but it’s not the bean, unfortunately, I’ve tried different beans and different styles of brewing. I just don’t like tea or coffee anymore. Perhaps that will change.

OTOH I am enjoying water, a lot.

#8

The last couple years in the summer, I have come to enjoy diluted diet coke. One part d.coke, 2 parts carbonated water, over ice. Yesterday, after not having any for a few days, I poured some into my glass, and found it to be sickly sweet and couldn’t drink it.

I had really enjoyed that beverage. I might try an even lower dilution, but at some point… what’s the point? :raccoon: