>>16054712>don't you think that it could've actually played a part in how you grew to tolerate foods which you used to hate?Possibly, hard to say. It was interesting to hear that particular taste bud receptors are affected by stress. I wonder what that means specifically. Does it change how all tastes are experienced, like how changing the hue of an image modifies all of its pixels? Or does it only affect particular tastes are received, since taste is, as you mentioned, a result of combinations of chemicals, certain receptors may be tasked with or at least prioritized to interpret certain chemicals.
>if you eat healthy food as you do, you're just naturally going to start preferring the kind.I think so, but for their effects rather than their taste. It doesn't feel as though my taste buds have adapted to enjoy healthy food significantly more than before.
>But your decision is actively impacting your preferenceHmm, maybe. Logically it makes sense because taste buds die and regrow, and what we consume affects our taste buds' preferences, but anecdotally I haven't seen it for healthy food yet. I've noticed it with soda, where I can remember being a little kid and enjoying soda a lot but now it's not as good. But that's a good point with the genetic aspect. Makes sense. Maybe I just never really noticed the change.
>I don't think that's really good, I mean, whether you eat food that tastes bad or good can have impact on your psyche.I touched on this a bit already in my previous post, but a small thing I'll add is that while the experience of eating something that tastes like trash could negatively affect your mood, the satisfaction of rising to the challenge and eating it regardless of its taste could positively affect your mood. Not that the satisfaction cancels out the poor taste, but, now that I think about it, the poor taste can actually reinforce the satisfaction, like the visceral feeling of lifting heavy weights. char lim
