Did anyone else that stopped eating meat notice their taste buds change?

Question

I have been slowly giving up meat, and now at the stage where I pretty much avoid it completely, I have noticed now that foods seem to taste more flavoursome and I am craving healthy things such as raw brocolli, cabbage etc.. I tried a small amount of chicken about a week ago that was served to me by my grandparents and found that the taste didn't appeal to me anymore and I thought that it tasted really bland and the texture was also not very enjoyable to eat.. did anyone else notice these changes? and is it common?? do our bodies lose a taste for meat after a while?

Answer 1

Yeah, real meat smells rotten now, milk smells sour way before the expiration date (because I'm used to rice, soy, or almond milks, which are either sweet or neutral tasting and don't grow bacteria as easily), and I stopped missing cheese after a couple of weeks of being vegan. And I don't care for the way most non-veg*ns prepare vegetables (boiled, steamed, or straight out of can) because it's so bland, but I think that's because I'm spoiled from my own cooking.

But... I also got used to eating (and enjoying!) super-salty ammonium chloride candy when it used to gag me, and when I left my apartment for a couple of months and came back later, I could suddenly taste the chlorine in the tap water. It's not only with being vegetarian, so much that avoiding or binging on any food type will make you more or less sensitive to its subtleties. Your body will adapt to just about any taste or smell.

Answer 2

I noticed a HUGE difference. Although it took me about a year to clean out my system. But one day I ate something simple such as a raw carrot and wow! The flavour was bursting. I had grown up thinking that vegetables were bland and pretty much tasteless. Then herbal tea... wow, suddenly that watery tasteless stuff had all these really interesting subtle flavours to it. When I started eating organic food... the fist time I had an organic apple -- wow, the flavour just bust into my mouth... I had always thought apples were OK, but were kind of gross etc. Basically the chemical apples tasted like crap, plus they were usually old before getting to the grocery store then eventually to my mouth. The organic grower and sellers are much more into quality and freshness etc. I couldn't believe that just plain vegetables could taste so good. Then eventually I had a garden and again, eating something straight from the garden... wow... Potatoes -- something that even organic was OK, but nothing special, were suddenly bursting with flavour... and we were eating these potatoes cooked straight from our garden with no sauce, salt, no topping, nothing... just plain and they were fantastic.

Then I learnt that not only do fresh organic fruits and veggies taste better, but there are hundreds of varieties of each out there. You can throw away that typical store stuff, because there are some radishes, carrots, turnips, etc. of certain varieties that taste 10x better than those commonly found in stores.

So, going back and tasting anything that I used to eat before, from cereal, frozen concentrated orange juice, pop, ...instant this or that, it all tasted like crap. I couldn't even eat the spaghetti sauce my parents used to always buy for me because that corn syrup, salt, sugar, and crap they put in that cheap sauce was just burning my throat and I couldn't stand the taste. I just wanted plain food -- my body was craving plain food... I guess once my body had tasted good quality food, it was telling me, 'give me more'.

I thought about it, and all that food I used to eat, I would put sauce, salt, sugar on everything. I remember as a kid dipping my slices of pear into sugar because it didn't have enough flavour. Dipping my already super salty McDonald's fries into more salt, salty ketchup, vinegar, etc.... I obviously couldn't taste a thing I was eating back then.

Answer 3

The range of vegetables that I enjoy has grown although I've always liked a variety of veggies. Also, a lot of commercial desserts taste too sweet so I'm doing more of my own baking (also a good way to sneak some whole grains into my SO). My taste for meat *must* have diminished, as we really don't care much for analogs anymore.

Answer 4

Yeah i noticed this quite a lot. things start to taste very different. ive started to feel that things like lettuce brocolli and the like, anything really green or sort of vegetably tastes really good.

ive been drinking green vegetable juice and barley grass for a long time, i used to just skull it down, but now i find myself sipping or drinking like its a normal drink, its no longer that bad.

i think you just get used to it.

i bought some vegetarian samosas from an indian place and they had em mixed up so my first bite was full of low grade beef mince and grisel, and a whole bunch of gravy... i gagged and nearly threw up, spitting it out in the street, i didnt think it would be such a mechanical disgust type re-action but yeah... it was! ewwww.

Answer 5

Well, my tongue's taken a much bigger interest in healthy food since going vegan...

First off, I've started to enjoy (and I do mean enjoy) ridiculously spicy food :)
Second, I vastly prefer whole grains over refined grains.
Third, I've become MUCH more sensitive to salt.
Fourth, I've learned to appreciate the nuances of fine fruits and vegetables.

And the other day, I accidentally took a bite of my friend's pita from Pita Pit with cheese instead of my own (they were mislabled), and it was so disgusting I had to spit it out... I guess that just goes to show, once you give something up, you're not gonna wanna go back.

Answer 6

I didn't notice any changes when I became vegan. However, my boyfriend was like you. He had some meat a couple weeks after being vegan and he didn't think it tasted as good as he had remembered.

Answer 7

When I lived down south I quit eating all meat except seafood. When I moved back north, I found I couldn't get the quality of seafood I was used to and had to start eating meat again. Still I really only eat chicken and hardly any beef or pork. I just don't care for it anymore.

Answer 8

your taste buds do change in about 2 weeks, for example, if you were used to drinking whole milk and all of the sudden changed to drinking 1% or fat free, at first it would taste basically like water but after 2 weeks it would taste like milk and if you tried to go back to whole it would taste too sweet and creamy.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

I now feel sick if I accidently taste meat.
And I appreciate my vegetables more, but find thongs like potatoes extremely dull since giving up meat.