Sweet things tasting weird

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I've decided to sort myself out and 3 weeks ago cut out all chocolate, cake, biscuits and bread as a snack (so ok as a sandwich lunch, not ok to have random slices of toast through boredom eating).

I have had sweet food as in fruit and had a small cup of hot chocolate so not sugar free. I will be having a slice of cake for my child's birthday next week.

My partner has some chocolate hobnobs and a small piece had broken off so I thought sod it, it's too small to make a difference - it tasted grim. Just pure fake sugar. I ate them very happily just a month ago. Can tastes change that quickly?

Hope so - because otherwise you need a covid test, as the one of the symptoms is 'you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal'

Not covid, everything else tastes fine!

Do you mean it tasted like a sweetener or like fatty oily fake cocoa with sugar?
Because the latter describes half of chocolate lately🤢 I always taste ot and in some can smell it before taking a bite. Also why I stopped eating Cadburys...

It might be that processed food tastes unpleasant more than the sweetness. If you have moved to whole foods, your tastebuds and gut bacteria can change in 3 weeks. Once you eat higher quality food, cheap food tastes cheap, industrial and wrong.

A processed biscuit or cake will have a lot more sugar than the same cake/biscuit baked at home, and this is why industrial baked goods just taste too sweet, and the cheap fat they use is so detectable.

When you cut out sugar, sweets and "detox" from it, you really notice how hyper sweet so many things are when you have them again.

It's probably the processed food thing - plus I normally dunk them in tea so maybe notice less! Funny though because I cook all meals from scratch anyway so you wouldn't think 3 weeks would make such a difference. Handy though as has totally put me off having any more.

I very quickly found most processed sweet "treats" were actually quite unpleasant after I cut out all added sugar for a few weeks.

I found this when I cut out full fat Coca Cola. I was honestly addicted, drinking about 20 cans a week and decided enough was enough. About 3 weeks later (due to a hangover) I had a full fat coke and couldn't stomach it, it was far too sweet. Although I've cut down on chocolate I haven't completely eliminated it so can't say for sure. I no longer eat Cadbury's but that's more because they absolutely ruined it

Funnily I've never actually had sweet tooth.

What you are finding now is how sweet stuff often tastes to me last decade😂 welcome to hell of cheap palm oil, weird sweetness, missing ingredients and "omg have i just licked sugar" when eating some stuff😂

You will find brands which are ok. I haven't had it for a year, but galaxy was much better than cadbury's

Yes. When you've been eating unprocessed stuff, it really shouts when it's not!

Yes it's awful after maybe three days off sugar. I had a white snicker (yes not my choice but they were in the cupboard) tasted like I was eating sugar.

DH quit sugar in his tea (only one cup once or occasionally twice a day) he need a quick boost so had tea with sugar and said it tasted awful.