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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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does anyone else think since the government decided what should be allowed in food that a lot of the taste and flavour of things you enjoy has gone? seems like the healthier stuff just tastes very bland and i dont look forward to eating my favourites any more, any one else think the same? |
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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago
Somewhere in North Norfolk |
"does anyone else think since the government decided what should be allowed in food that a lot of the taste and flavour of things you enjoy has gone? seems like the healthier stuff just tastes very bland and i dont look forward to eating my favourites any more, any one else think the same?"
"Healthier" stuff is probably not full of sugar, salt and other additives which is what you are used to.
You need to re-educate yourself to taste actual food and eat fresh foods as often as possible. |
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Unfortunately, the "unhealthy = tasty" intuition is so deeply ingrained in us that we feel anything healthy is bland. I have been doing some work on trying to overcome this intuition, using color of the food as a perceptual cue. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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i never add salt to anything but chips and they dont happen very often - enough natural salts in stuff - will add herbs to rice and pasta instead of a stock cube |
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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago
Somewhere in North Norfolk |
"Unfortunately, the "unhealthy = tasty" intuition is so deeply ingrained in us that we feel anything healthy is bland. I have been doing some work on trying to overcome this intuition, using color of the food as a perceptual cue. "
I'm not sure it's intuition.
Sugar is addictive, has physiological effects and changes people's perception of taste.
Cut out sugar completely for a month and everything will taste very different.
It's the same for salt. If you get used to food without it, you adapt to the actual flavour of the food.
As our taste buds only really differentiate between salt and sweet (as I understand it, anyway), if we overload them with those things, it makes sense that we won't detect much flavour in things without them.
We, in general, need to adjust our baseline in terms of tastes. |
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"Unfortunately, the "unhealthy = tasty" intuition is so deeply ingrained in us that we feel anything healthy is bland. I have been doing some work on trying to overcome this intuition, using color of the food as a perceptual cue.
I'm not sure it's intuition.
Sugar is addictive, has physiological effects and changes people's perception of taste.
Cut out sugar completely for a month and everything will taste very different.
It's the same for salt. If you get used to food without it, you adapt to the actual flavour of the food.
As our taste buds only really differentiate between salt and sweet (as I understand it, anyway), if we overload them with those things, it makes sense that we won't detect much flavour in things without them.
We, in general, need to adjust our baseline in terms of tastes."
Yes, our taste for sugar and salt definitely activates the reward centers in our brain. Interestingly, there is research to show that a little taste of a sweet juice makes people more reward-seeking in general, so they are more likely to seek pleasure through sex, shop impulsively, make risky gambles, etc.
What I am saying, however, is that you do not even need to taste something to feel more positive towards unhealthy foods. I have shown pictures of unhealthy versus healthy foods to research participants at exposures less than 50 milliseconds, and found a more positive evaluation of the former. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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All valid replies from everyone, but in a nutshell what i was really asking is do you think food tasted better before all of the rules on what is allowed to be in our food, personally id rather use my own common sense of how much etc to eat but be able to eat food the way it used to be when i personally found it more tasty, aswell as that I can think of at least a dozen different things that due to some of the addatives they dont actually make them any more which is very dissapointing as some were favourites of mine |
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"All valid replies from everyone, but in a nutshell what i was really asking is do you think food tasted better before all of the rules on what is allowed to be in our food, personally id rather use my own common sense of how much etc to eat but be able to eat food the way it used to be when i personally found it more tasty, aswell as that I can think of at least a dozen different things that due to some of the addatives they dont actually make them any more which is very dissapointing as some were favourites of mine"
In general, any mandate can backfire. Let me give you one example. Labels such as "low fat" or "low calories" have ironically led to over-consumption, as people feel it is easy to justify based on the health claim. Why would they do so if the food tastes more bland because of the health claim? It is because they are now mindlessly eating the food instead of savoring its taste. |
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By *omMLMan
over a year ago
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It tasted fantastic and that burger I get on the way home on a Saturday night still does. But I only have it occasionally as I do real full salted butter on toast. Think I know what might be for dinner. Lol. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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They are talking about banning/taxing sugar puffs, frosties, etc because they are making kids fat.
No they aren't i used to eat them when i was younger, i also used to heap tablespoons of sugar onto my wheatabix (about 3-4 each biscuit) my gran even gave me sugar on a buttered piece (don't knock it until you've tried it) and i never put on weight until i neared forty.
It's sitting on their fat arses that is getting them fat, tax or ban couches, not the food !!
Also all these energy drinks and sports drinks, good if you exercise - rubbish if you don't
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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we have this chat so often here - when i was little etc - always eggs with butter and salt dropped in top and dipped buttered soldiers - those were the days of walking everywhere , carrying everything, and playing out all day in all weathers - bath once a week blah blah blah - |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"we have this chat so often here - when i was little etc - always eggs with butter and salt dropped in top and dipped buttered soldiers - those were the days of walking everywhere , carrying everything, and playing out all day in all weathers - bath once a week blah blah blah - "
I agree.. And fish and chips out of paper on the way back...  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"we have this chat so often here - when i was little etc - always eggs with butter and salt dropped in top and dipped buttered soldiers - those were the days of walking everywhere , carrying everything, and playing out all day in all weathers - bath once a week blah blah blah -
I agree.. And fish and chips out of paper on the way back... "
back in the day when they were cooked in lard - oh my oh my - tummy growl |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Unfortunately, the "unhealthy = tasty" intuition is so deeply ingrained in us that we feel anything healthy is bland. I have been doing some work on trying to overcome this intuition, using color of the food as a perceptual cue.
I'm not sure it's intuition.
Sugar is addictive, has physiological effects and changes people's perception of taste.
Cut out sugar completely for a month and everything will taste very different.
It's the same for salt. If you get used to food without it, you adapt to the actual flavour of the food.
As our taste buds only really differentiate between salt and sweet (as I understand it, anyway), if we overload them with those things, it makes sense that we won't detect much flavour in things without them.
We, in general, need to adjust our baseline in terms of tastes."
There is also a taste known as Umami it's the flavour of meat and the like so we have sweet salt and umami .
Also sense of smell has a major effect on flavour if you want to try it out block your nose with something then eat something you know the flavour of and see the difference |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Avoid anything that is iradiated.
Takes all the nutrition out, still looks fresh though."
No, no it doesn't not in the slightest at all.
And most things are irradiated because it's a fantastic way of keeping a things fresh combined with a nitrogen atmosphere which means we don't have to use taste altering preservatives. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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And when did the government ban stuff in food? Apart from cancerous horrible chemicals that you would not want your children to be exposed to. I just wish that there was a universal and straightforward labelling system which embraced supermarket, restaurant and takeaway foods to put us in control of choice. Then you could see what is in the food and make your choice accordingly. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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At the moment I am concerned about the amount if arsenic found naturally in rice
When I was little, my mum have me sugar melted on roti - or fried bananas for breakfast. I have been a skinny little thing until recently when I am trying to get bigger |
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