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<blockquote data-quote="Celeriac" data-source="post: 911646" data-attributes="member: 188243"><p>I started low carbing and eating organic food for my T2 in 2012 and my taste buds have really changed. I hadn't eaten actual sugar since I was a kid but did have sweeteners and I've given them up as being far too sweet. </p><p></p><p>I can't eat milk chocolate, in fact even 70% cocoa chocolate is inedible for me now and I can taste the sugar in 90% cocoa chocolate. I've almost given up drinking organic whole milk in tea because I can taste the milk sugar. I can taste the lactose in unsalted butter too. Weirdly I can't taste it in yogurt or cheese, however. I had a look at a coeliac website and it seems the higher the fat content a dairy product has, the lower the lactose. So I'm wondering whether the fat masks the taste or whether the lactose is at a level which my tongue just doesn't detect. </p><p></p><p>It's not just chocolate, milk and butter which taste sweet however. Heinz cream of tomato soup, even the organic one, has this unbearable sweet n salt taste to it, as does their tomato ketchup. Even tinned tomatoes taste sweet now, whereas I used to think them unbearably tart. I can happily munch on a cherry tomato and it seems almost as sweet as a grape.</p><p></p><p>So my questions are: Has anyone else experienced major changes in taste for better or worse ? Does the fact that my taste buds are very sensitive to sugar mean that my body is hypersensitive to it too ? Is it possible to have a glucose allergy as well as diabetes ? Or are tastebuds supposed to work that well ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celeriac, post: 911646, member: 188243"] I started low carbing and eating organic food for my T2 in 2012 and my taste buds have really changed. I hadn't eaten actual sugar since I was a kid but did have sweeteners and I've given them up as being far too sweet. I can't eat milk chocolate, in fact even 70% cocoa chocolate is inedible for me now and I can taste the sugar in 90% cocoa chocolate. I've almost given up drinking organic whole milk in tea because I can taste the milk sugar. I can taste the lactose in unsalted butter too. Weirdly I can't taste it in yogurt or cheese, however. I had a look at a coeliac website and it seems the higher the fat content a dairy product has, the lower the lactose. So I'm wondering whether the fat masks the taste or whether the lactose is at a level which my tongue just doesn't detect. It's not just chocolate, milk and butter which taste sweet however. Heinz cream of tomato soup, even the organic one, has this unbearable sweet n salt taste to it, as does their tomato ketchup. Even tinned tomatoes taste sweet now, whereas I used to think them unbearably tart. I can happily munch on a cherry tomato and it seems almost as sweet as a grape. So my questions are: Has anyone else experienced major changes in taste for better or worse ? Does the fact that my taste buds are very sensitive to sugar mean that my body is hypersensitive to it too ? Is it possible to have a glucose allergy as well as diabetes ? Or are tastebuds supposed to work that well ? [/QUOTE]
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