How have your food tastes changed as you've aged?

I tried it again, but I still can’t stand liver. (I have always been willing to try most anything once.)

I seem to like less food as I get older. :(

I’m always willing to try new things, but over the years I’ve given up eggs, French Toast, bacon, mushrooms, hot dogs, and a lot of cheese. I used to like all that stuff when I was little. But I’ve tried a lot of new food and liked it since then.

I like more things now. Broccoli is the biggest one. I used to hate it, now I fix it regularly. Also lima beans, spinach (depending on how it is prepared), cooked carrots, coffee, unsweetened tea. Apparently, I had an issue with bitter things.

I have changed. I now even like fruit and meat together, which I used to despise.

I don’t think my tastes have changed, but I’ve definitely been exposed to more types of food thanks in large part to my man.

I don’t like sweets as much. The only kind of sweets I eat nowadays are chocolate, cookies, skittles, and gobstoppers. Anything else will probably make me sick.

@Piper_Brianmind : You reminded me of something else. I also like much darker chocolate than I used to. I’m not at all tempted by candy bars anymore. I just don’t like them. Put some super dark chocolate in front of me though and oh yeah. I’m having that.

I used to love root beer and cottage cheese (not together) and now if I try to consume either I feel like I’m going to gag.

Although I have aquirred a taste for things like slaw, pimiento cheese, dark chocolate (at least 75% dark or I can’t eat it—> don’t like sweet foods anymore)

Very much so.

Hawaiian punch or coke makes me want to vomit, while things like artichokes, hummus, pesto, salad and yellow waxbeans are delicious

I have definitely noticed that my food tastes have changed as I have gotten older, especially with regards to coffee. I prefer it with much less sugar than I used to, but still with lots of milk.

I now like plain yogurt, or plain yogurt with a little honey stirred in. Before, plain yogurt was too tart for me.

Although I could still eat sweetened cereal (Cocoa Pebbles, Reeses Puffs, etc), I would probably pick something healthier, like Quaker Toasted Oat Squares (the cinnamon kind are to die for!) because I would then stay full for longer.

As I get older, I try to incorporate healthier foods into my diet, but not deny myself foods I like (kettle chips!), just eat them less or “in moderation”.

Also, I’ve finally come the realisation that plain chocolate does nothing for me. I’d rather have a Milky Way Midnight or a Three Musketeers than a Hershey’s Bar, not the least because Hershey’s bars taste…off. (However, Cost Plus makes a delicious sea salt and dark chocolate bar which is awesome.)

Sort of what you’re looking for?

@evegrimm: Exactly what I’m looking for! I keep having this discussion with my fella and my daughter. I really wonder what causes this. I don’t think it’s just that I’m more health conscious. It seems almost like some of my taste buds died and some new ones were born. You know?

@cyndyh, I completely agree.

I always attributed this to our tastebuds changing every 7 years (link goes to a source).

It’s true, though, as far as my anecdotal evidence goes. I’m due for new buds in about 10 months…oooh, transitional period! (I guess I should start trying new things, eh?)

Ok, the transitional 6 months thing sounds iffy to me. Why would that be something that happened suddenly instead of gradually? It is interesting anyway. I guess that’s another thing for my list of things I want to find out more about.

My tastes have not changed that much. One change is I can tolerate cilantro. Every so often I try things that most people like, and/or are supposedly good for me, but I dislike, and I continue to not like them. Things like blueberries and raw tomatoes are at the top of that list—yuck.

I’ve always had an adventuresome palate, and also been consistent in the foods I really hate (bananas, eggplant, okra). The one thing that has changed is my taste for and in coffee. I used to not drink coffee at all. I preferred chocolate. Then I got into mocha. Over the last year or so, mocha has become too sweet, and now I prefer unsweetened lattes.

@evegrimm That dark choco and sea salt bar sounds perfect!!!!

I’d say drastically….

to give you a general idea why I say that, let me put it this way, I used to eat straight ketchup when I was in single digits….

Mine have changed a lot. I used to hate onions and peppers and now I eat them all the time. I love green/red/yellow peppers now but when I was younger I’d have starved first. Same with onions. I’ve also started liking yogurt which I couldn’t eat before. I think that was more of a texture issue-not a huge fan of pudding and things of that consistency I used to eat a lot of ketchup when I was younger and now I can only eat it on fries, can’t stand the way it tastes on bread.

I dont have the exact science for you – but it is said that a lot of your cells replicate and change over the course of 7 years (not all, but a lot). I’ve heard more speculation that this has something to do with your taste buds changing.

Again, I haven’t read any official empirical information on the stuff I just said but I do think you lose taste buds as you get older and they therefore become less sensitive to certain tastes. Might explain how Swiss cheese was so strong and overbearing for me at 10 – but now, I love it =D.

Supposedly you have much fewer taste buds as an adult than as a child, so you aquire a taste for stronger foods. Children tend to likel bland food like pasta, chicken, cereal, “white foods” because the other stuff tastes too much in their mouths, too strong. That is why I don’t like when kids are forced to eat something. If you wait a few years they might like the very thing they decided they hated when they were very little. I think introducing new flavors should be done at a moderate pace.

It took into my 20’s before I’d consent to try sour creme but now I absolutely love it! Same goes for Tequila, I wouldn’t try it until in my 30’s and found out I rather like it, especially Casa Noble.