I’m super sensitive to anything even slightly less than the freshest fish. If I buy a filet of halibut and have it in the fridge for more than a day or so, my wife still enjoys it, but I just hate it because it tastes “old” to me. Maybe that’s due to oxidation?
Hmm, our microbiomes are highly dynamic. These changes are mainly driven by diet.
PPI, that you may take for reflux, also affect your microbiome.
As for small changes in the microbiome affecting taste. Very unlikely. I am interested in papers showing this though.
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Have you by any chances started taking any new medications in that time period? I’ve seen a lot of people’s tastes, in both wine and food, respond to such a change.
I am extremely sensitive to the flavors in fish you are describing, to the point that I cannot eat it at all. Very very irritating. But I have always been that way. I will say that, for me, it has no relationship to any flavors in wine.
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Most of my adult life I didn’t like blueberries. Seemed too creamy and not enough acid. Now suddenly in the last year or so I really like them.
Possibly they have gotten better, or I’m just buying better ones?
Anyway, our tastes keep migrating around throughout our lives.
Gotta get those GMO berries
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wrong, tie goes to admin.
moved to epicurean exploits!
You are hardly around here these days and this was a priority?
Influencers gonna (gotta?) influence…
I think this just happens occasionally though I don’t know why. I went through a period when I couldn’t stand shrimp or scallops. It lasted a long while but now they’re tolerable. My wife suddenly couldn’t eat any liver from any source and loved it for years prior. She’s beginning to eat it now and then. I’ve fallen in and out of liking different wines (varieties). I think it has to do with aging and simple taste changes. I’ve never given it much thought.
Any alert we receive is a priority. We get notifications of every alert. And i’m around here plenty, we just aren’t participating in the same threads.
Wife and I chilling out at home tonight. She proposed getting some lobster tails, but the concept of that is just grossing me out .have felt that way for a year or so but had no issue any of them prior to that. Or eating whole lobsters. Just the way it goes sometimes.
It’s quite a ball of string!
Aging, as mentioned, can be associated with perceptual changes in smell and taste.
As Ben mentioned, meds can do it. (We see it here and there with the new GLP-1 craze, too.)
Changes in saliva production, dental issues/gum disease, sinus issues, nasal passage patency, reflux, glucose, even live things like gall bladder or liver can affect things. Even one’s nutritional status.
Several medical disorders can lurk behind changes in palate or olfaction. Even weight loss or gain can affect our upper airway and sense of smell and taste.
Post Covid/flu/virus can alter our perceptions, as well.
Ditto with blueberries! Now, I can’t get enough of them! I am very processed sugar averse, and I wonder if I like them more because I am appreciating ‘relatively sweet’ more than sweet now that I am old.
I’m following you now to be sure I don’t miss any of your contributions.
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Weirdest thing for me was that post kidney surgery I can’t stand dry aged beef. I used to spend far too much at Flannery but now the funkiness I used to love makes me nauseous.
I’m guessing a gut biome thing since I was told to go on probiotics for a few months at least as the antibiotics would clear a lot of stuff out.
OK interesting update here: I had ChatGPT review all the supplements I’m taking this week and it flagged that I was getting too much iron. My multivitamin contains iron, and I was also taking a separate supplement for eye health that included additional iron. I found research noting that excessive iron intake can cause even fresh fish to taste metallic and become repulsive.
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Interesting!
Let us know how things go over time!