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A member asked:
Do our tastes in/ability to digest food change as we age? if so, why? i find that certain foods i used to love no longer appeal to or disagree w/me.
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Tastes do change: but not as much as their associations. Having pleasant or unpleasant experiences associated with foods/tastes will have a large impact. And some things like hot/spice changes the nerves that are triggered by them and they have less effect over time. And children tend to have different tastes than adults.
Answered 4/11/2016
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