#Supertasters

[dragonraptyr]

Regarding Force Sensitivity and the recent discussions about Sabine: y'all, what if it's like the difference between being a Supertaster, and taking the time to develop your palate?

#star wars #ahsoka series #sabine wren #The force #force sensitive #Supertasters #Midichlorians are tastebuds

[grouchydairy]

Similarly, our sensitivity to bitter foods is largely associated with a gene called TAS2R38,40 and you can measure yours at home by picking up some paper test strips saturated with a chemical called 6-n-propylthiouracil41 (PROP), which are widely available online. About half the population finds these strips moderately bitter42 ("tasters"), while a quarter finds them unpalatably bitter ("supertasters"), and another quarter describes them as having no taste at all ("nontasters"). Supertasters also tend to have a higher density of taste buds,43 and although this might sound like a coveted foodie superpower, supertasters are likely to be pickier eaters44 and avoid things like coffee, wine, spirits, dark chocolate, and various fruits and vegetables (e.g., grapefruit, broccoli, kale) because they find them too bitter.

Matt Siegel (The Secret History of Food)

#Matt Siegel #The Secret History of Food #Supertasters #Sensory sensitivity #neurodiversity #lucy dot txt

[diariodeunpoeta]

Tú me superaste con otra persona y yo me supere como persona, ¿Entiendes la diferencia?

#frases #pensamientos #sentimientos #letras #textos #amor #escritos #citas #frases tumblr #superar #supertaste #yo me supere #persona #motivacion

[stagefoot]

At today’s meet-and-greet there was a container with strawberries and pineapple

And I love strawberries and I HATE pineapple (even more than I love strawberries) so I was like

#I’m sorry #I’m a supertaster #if you could taste what I taste #you would hate pineapple too lol #(I ate the strawberries) #(but only the FARTHEST strawberries) #stagefoot original

[copperbadge]

It’s a cooking day! Or anyway it was a cooking morning. 

[ID: Top, an image of Sebastian Stan cooking, labeled “Cooking Day” in my handwriting. Below, images of several things I cooked: pesto, rutabaga latkes, a massive cluster of oyster mushrooms, the stems sauteeing in a pan, the caps shredded and waiting to go into the oven, and beautifully cooked mushrooms in barbecue sauce.]

I’m counting this as my NaClYoHo for the day because I also did a ton of dishes and ended up sweeping, vacuuming, and scrubbing the floor because I found a colony of pantry weevils living in a corner of the kitchen behind the trash. (Later today I will be stopping by the hardware store again to buy some insect traps and maybe say hello to Hardware Guy With The Good Hair.)

I don’t really eat greens so I researched what I could do with mizuna, and there was a pesto recipe that popped up, but I like my pesto recipe better so I used the Almond Pesto recipe in my file here; I subbed in cashews for the almonds and did half basil and half mizuna, which was fine I guess; I’m freezing most of it. It did use up my basil harvest from yesterday. 

The rutabaga I got in the farm share was fresh and clean, and I was looking forward to the latkes, but it started to smell while I was grating it, and when I was frying it the smell was so bad I almost had to leave the kitchen. The edges of the little fried pancakes were fine, but both the texture and the flavor of the middle were awful. I hate to waste food but there was no way I was going to eat them or feed them to anyone else, even if probably the flavor was me being a supertaster and not a general issue with rutabagas. 

Look at that honkin mass of oyster mushrooms I got, though! Truly delightful. I found a recipe for “mushroom pulled pork” that looked good, though I improvised from that framework -- I pulled the caps off the stems, tore them by hand and tossed them with olive oil and a seasoning mix I like, then baked them; meanwhile I diced the stems and threw them in a skillet with some seasoning, water, and soy sauce, steam-cooked them in the skillet to soften them, then sauteed until all the liquid was gone and stashed them for later use. By then the caps were out of the oven so I sauteed them too, adding barbecue sauce and a bit of dijon mustard.

I have to do a grocery run before I can cook anything else, but that’s fine; work is slow today and I’ll slip out to Trader Joe’s at lunch, maybe. In the meantime, podcasts this morning were “Economists Hate Car Dealerships Too” by The Indicator, “Why The Red Wave Didn’t Happen” by The Journal (really excellent, do recommend this episode) and “Murder on the Gulf Coast” by True Crime Obsessed. I also listened to a bit of “Peak Sand” by Planet Money, about beach sand theft, but it was a rerun. I saved it though, I think there might be some kind of plot there for a Shivadh novel at some point. 

#food #sam cooks #naclyoho #cleaning #supertaster

[xcziel]

picky eater/supertaster update:

so far the Sneaky Peas system has been a success. best practice is 6-8 frozen peas washed down between every few bites of minute rice with campbell's golden mushroom soup straight out of the can (delicious to me for nostalgia reasons)

now if only i could figure some convenient way of rendering broccoli or like spinach into frozen easy-to-swallow form ...

#those little 60sec microwave cups of minute rice are a game changer for me too #i have eaten more rice and more 'vegetables' in the last couple months than in the last two years in total #and that is not me joking #i am fine as long as i can't taste the vegetables but that's why the supertasting thing is tough #and i'm fine taking supplements but evidently they won't completely substitute for real vegetables #so: frozen so i can't taste them and easily swallowable like a pill #what can i get this way besides peas is the question

[performing-personhood]

Be me.

Find a flavor of bagels at the grocery store and get very excited, Hawaiian Bagels. Well I love a Kings Hawaiian brand roll so a bagel would probably be amazing, even if its a cheapo Kroger brand approximation.

Buy bagels. Happy Skipping Leo dot Gif.

Slather 5 in wads of cream cheese and runny fried eggs, and consume happily. All that lovely mouth-coating fat hides an ugly truth. I am blissfully ignorant.

Bagel 6 breaks the mold and gets a thin layer peanut butter.

Finish up my bagel. Scroll reddit for a while until I notice a funny flavor lingering in my mouth. A chemically, plasticky, flat flavor - like the sourness that remains after finishing a breathmint, but not quite as sharp and funky. A flavor like sucralose. A hunch takes shape.

A giant red flag labeled SHRINKFLATION waves in my brain.

Skeptical Fry dot Gif

Dig the bag back out of my Bag O Bags™️, read deep into the ingredients

Ingredient 22 of 30: sucralose

Cool, now I'm annoyed and frustrated and its 100% not my fault that I didn't think to check if there was a zero calorie sweetener in these regular-ass full-everything 260-calorie bagels. (Actually 260cal is a little low, which should have been a giveaway but I don't track calories so, again, I don't think to read calorie content labels.) My mouth tastes like plastic even though I am still drinking coffee and I have to go get READ THE INGREDIENT LABELS ON EVERYTHING BEFORE YOU BUY IT tattooed across the back of my hands because I can't ever remember to check for ingredients that should not fucking be in the food I'm carefully selecting to avoid those ingredients.

WHY DO YOU HAVE TO RUIN EVERYTHING, DIET CULTURE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, WHY.

#shrinkflation #hidden ingredients #artificial sweeteners #zero calorie sweeteners #diet culture #sensitive palate #supertaster #actually audhd #just neurodivergent things #actually neurodivergent #actually autistic #actually adhd #sensory #sensory sensitivity

[calamitys-child]

OK pray FUCK I get an actual sleep tonight I'm so tired tn and legit afraid insomnia will Still get me. Please brain it's bedtime I need it

#SAWBONES EP REFERENCING TMBG KIDS ALBUM JOHN LEE SUPERTASTER MY BEST FRIEND #these are entirely unrelated thoughts these just happened

[scienceisfood]

I lost my sense of smell/flavor

#sif personal #okay but you need to understand how important to me this is #i literally lead and teach sensory classes #i am a supertaster and often referred to for a second opinion if something is questionable #rewind a second- i work in the food processing industry #every food you buy from the store that isn't straight from the ground has a sensory test performed on them so it reliably tastes similar #it's like suddenly not being able to see the color yellow #i don't like this I DON'T LIKE THIS #Santa please bring back my olafactory system #i know it could be much worse but i really really don't like this #YELLING AT THE CRUEL MISTRESS FATE #i can't smell chocolate on Christmas Eve 😭😭😭

[theonlybezo]

I don't know the prevalence of supertasting in the autistic community, but I am both autistic and a supertaster and one of the ways I exist is to measure and categorize everything so, without ado of any kind, here are my tolerance levels for various tastes.

Feel free to add your own, regardless of your autistic or supertaster status.

Sweet: 7/10 (there is such a thing as too sweet but it'll take a lot to push me away)

Salty: 8/10 (I crave that mineral and even when I can feel it burning my lips, there are very few things that could be considered too salty for me)

Sour: 2/10 (I do not enjoy anything more sour than tomato ketchup)

Bitter: 1/10 (Bitterness absolutely ruins food for me. I cannot drink coffee or eat many vegetables because of this)

Spicy: 3/10 (I like a bit of tingle but anything that attacks the tongue or remains in the mouth for more than a few seconds is bad)

Earthy: 1/10 (This is probably a subcategory of bitter but anything like mushrooms is right out)

Fermented: 0/10 (included in this category is alcohol, kombucha, and any cheese in which mold is a feature. Anything that tastes of rot is not something I wish to experience)

#autism #actually autistic #supertaster #about bezo

[fruitgoat]

Probably won't be post much for at least a week. I've got a couple members of the Chicago based Family visiting and that means everyone else is visiting too. But I just need to rant for a minute about the obliviousness that is My Mom. I just had to explain to her Yet Again, that although my brother and niece do not stay kosher, they are still Jewish and that perhaps pork for Friday Dinner would not be appropriate.

#that was always the rule when i lived with them #i made dinner and on fridays i never cooked pork and either baked or purchased challah #it's been that way for over 20 years #also i'm not a supertaster but know several of different flavors #so i always ask about olives and mushrooms and zucchini before adding them to pasta sauce #it's going to be a long 10 days in that i'm already grumpy and annoyed and people won't arrive for hours yet

[wingedarcaderuins]

funny how it works that my sense of smell is my worst one physically, i'm a Known Non Smeller, but lately i've been feeling like my clairalience is my strongest clair sense. that's probably linked in some way but i'm not too well versed in the specifics on the clairs yet to really say

#it was always weird to me that my sense of taste is so intense that i think i may be a supertaster yet my clairgustance really needs work #so that's still following this pattern but in the other direction... hm... #candace speaks #occult

[grouchydairy]

I feel like not as many autistic people talk about supertasting/being sensory overwhelmed by taste. If you're a supertaster/have sensory sensitivities to taste and flavours, please share your story below! I'd love to hear about other people's own experiences with this sense.

lucy dan is a sour supertaster

#supertasters #neurodiversity #sensory overwhelm #sensory sensitivity #flavours

[the-unseelie-court-official]

That wonderful home cooking! #vintage #cottagecore #supertaster #aesthetic #momcore

[shock-centurion]

Does spice intolerance increase at night? Is that a thing?

Like I'm very weak to spice in general but there are meals that I'm like oof that's not completely comfy but it is also delicious om nom

But only when I eat them during the day

Like this uh banquet mega bowls dynamite penne and meatballs during the day is like. Yeah it's painful but it tastes good so I can push through and enjoy it right

But at night like right now

This is too much it just hurts like the pain blocks my ability to taste it

I'm over here eating the least sauced noodles only and wiping sauce off the meatballs like what is this is my brain like no it's eepy time no strong sensations

Or what

#Food #Supertaster

[copperbadge]

sam, you talk a lot about being a supertaster, which has gotten me thinking: I wonder if it's possible to be the opposite? because I've been noticing that, if I eat a food completely by itself, I can identify the taste (ie: chicken tastes like chicken, etc), but when I get a meal with ingredients all mixed together it just has Taste. I watch all these cooking shows where the judges talk about tasting "notes of spice" or "hints of [something]" and all I can think every time I eat something is "tastes like food".

Yes! If you google "nontaster" (some less salubrious sites say "subtaster" but that's kind of a sign of somewhere you shouldn't trust) you'll get some information on it.

I should say though, as a supertaster, it's not necessarily that I get more complexity out of food. You can be sensitive to very specific flavors which are then all you taste. Like, I thought the whole idea of tasting notes in beer or wine was just a marketing ploy. Beer tastes like beer tastes like beer, right? Turns out I'm sensitive to the hops, so all I get is the dumb bitter shit. Likewise, I didn't realize people actually taste different flavors in apples. There are some apples on the far-tart end of the spectrum where I can taste a difference, but I thought apples were basically marketed on texture. There's some enzyme, I think, in the apple that is just all I taste.

So it's entirely possible you are a nontaster, in fact that's very much what it sounds like, but there is an off-chance you're just super sensitive to one very common flavor in foods (salt, sugar, grains, etc) and that's all you taste. I'm not well-educated on nontasters so I can't give you a ton of advice, but there are tests you can do/buy to figure it out, so good luck and happy googling!

#supertaster #food