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What's so super about it then??

And now I will have the They Might Be Giants song stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94K9zBpl35g

I would think that a condition that caused a person to be unable to eat vegetables would be pretty debilitating to their health... is there a correlation between conditions like diabetes and "supertasting"?

hmmm.... maybe our 20 month-old is a supertaster...

I wonder if "supertasters" just have bland palates.

If someone has lived their whole life eating meat and potatoes and gas station strength coffee they may overreact to those taste sensations which are bold.

Sounds like I'm describing the majority of the Midwest. But really, things like garlic, fresh and pleasantly bitter vegetables, chili peppers--these are things that can not only be unpleasantly strong in flavor to certain people but just generally offensive to them because they haven't learned or don't care to learn to enjoy them.

What I would like to know is if the superstasters' taste sensation wanes over time. The way I understand it, most peoples' taste buds weaken over time. This may be why many upper middle-aged people will often add more salt to their food. So as supertasters age will they begin to enjoy these once off-putting foods?

I guess I'm in the mind over matter camp. But I'm not judging. I've never been one to force someone to eat something they don't like. I was that kid at the table with the cheekfuls of broccoli once.

I am pretty sure that I am a supertaster. Friends like to test my ability to taste things in foods.

Foods that are really bitter, I can't handle. I do drink coffee (and I prefer ones that are chocolately), but for me it was a learned taste. I always liked the smell, but 'taught' myself to drink it.

I can't handle things like olives and squashes. I love veggies, but find that they have to be cooked carefully. I favor sour and salty foods.

I also can't drink Coke products because they taste like cinnamon to me.

husband complained that the worn silverplate tasted "funny" which I could not detect and thought he was being too finickly. daughter also complained and I read something that some people can taste metals and others can't.

I believe I am a supertaster, but I've never had problems with cooked vegetables. I find I have an "extreme" taste sensitivity to sour and bitter flavors. While I can eat almost everything, I've never learned to enjoy pickled things, or bitter greens like radiccio and most kale, or coffee without masses of cream and sugar, or pretty much all alcohol (wine, beer, or hard liquor, it all just tastes nasty to me). Many spices are almost overpowering in the quantities that friends find delicious. I jokingly say that "I have the taste buds of a small child", when offered something I know will be wasted on me....