Eating One Thing at a Time

[loramin]

Originally Posted by maskedmelon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Interesting! Do you liek spicy foods? I hadn't thought how other preferences have changed alongside this, but realized it also happens to coincide with greatly increased affinity for bitterness and comparably reduced tolerance for sweets. prefer my coffee black.

I do. An interestingly enough there's a separate mechanism that also explains why people like really spicy or bitter foods (or beer), even though objectively those flavors start out tasting "bad" to us. Essentially there's a Stockholm syndrome-like thing built in to our brains, where when we eat foods that taste "bad" a few times we actually grow to like that flavor. I forget the name for this mechanism, but I'm sure you can find it on Google if you're interested.