Do people's taste buds change?

I think so.. But i think it changes over the years, as they grow. Some people like different food as they grow up, they may even like the food they hated when they were young. I also noticed that you should not eat sweets before eating fruits, it makes it sour sometimes.

It has nothing to do with the tea or coffee. Peoples taste buds change all of the time as we get older. One minute you can like dark chocolate and the next you won't like it.

oh i guess over time it does change, what we want before, could be different now, perhaps that is how it is for most of us over time our preferences may change as well. i used to love spicy food so much and would not be satisfied if what i am eating is not spicy. but now i kind of am not in the mood for spicy foods anymore and i prefer other tastes than spicy food.

I'm not really sure, but I have also noticed my preference for some beverage or food had changed. I also feel that the usual stuff I drink had become too sweet mor my liking. Even my coffee, which I usually take with a teaspoonful of sugar, has become sweet that I cut back and made it half a teaspoon now. I'm a 4-cup-a-day coffee drinker, so maybe it could have affected my taste buds. Or maybe age is also one cause of it.

I dont think that it has anything to do with drinking to much coffee or tea. I think that it just has to do with age. I think that your taste buds change as you get older. I do not drink coffee or tea and my taste buds have also changed. So dont think that it has anything to do with what you have done over the years lol.

The tannins in the tea are great for your teeth, but the astringent qualities of coffee and tea could be distorting the sweet flavors for you. I have no idea if they change your tastebuds over time. Best wishes! :-)

I would say that taste buds would depreciate to some extant due to age, just like any other part of the body. They will also be affected, although temporarily, by what we have consumed recently so that drinking a sweet drink will not taste as sweet if we previously consumed something sweeter. The most likely reason for our changing responses to certain tastes is our mental perception of it. We can develop a taste for something after consuming it for a period of time, but it does not actually taste any different. It is the appreciation of that specific taste that will vary. Taste, like all senses, is our brain's interpretation of the data received. If someone convinces us that what we are eating actually contains some horrible foreign body then it will probably taste quite repulsive to us.

Hello Trinity and good morning. welcome to myLot. as for your question,Yes I do believe that our taste buds do change as we get older.As kids get older they find they do like vegetables. I find that I don't like the same things that I did a few years ago. I too dislike those sweet foods. As a kid my favorit candy bar was the three musketeers. Now I can't stand it. This is very interesting. we start out with 245 taste buds on our tongue. At age 50 we start to lose some of those taste buds. By the time we reach the age of 80 we are down to about 88. I used to like spicy foods but now even mildly spicy foods are too spicy and burn my mouth. There a number of other reasons for taste changing. They could be the results Of Bell's palsy, Bronchiectasis, Cancer, Cancer therapy, and a number of other causes. http://www.steadyhealth.com/Do_taste_buds_and_digestion_change_as_we_age__t77083.html http://drkrider.com/Topics/Symptoms/Taste,%20loss.htm

i am not sure about that but i find that with age, my taste buds have changed. i no longer like milk chocolate because i find it too sweet. i prefer dark chocolate instead.

Yeah I have noticed my tastebuds changed too. For one I didn't really like coffee before yet I discovered that some things taste better with it. Not only happened to me once but innumerable times already.

I think that over the years that people's taste buds do change. we do not have the same taste for certain foods that we used to have a craving for. some foods just lose their appeal that way,.

certainly it does be all cause as age grows,they tend to get addicted to all kinds of food and their taste factor keeps on varying

People's taste buds changes from time to time. You may find when you suffer from flu/ fever you feel like having something spicy or may be after having one particular food for a long time you might loose interest in the same. Food preference changed with our mood as well as physical condition. So enjoy eating what ever you like at the present moment.

Maybe you only change your taste or preferences for food because of always eating same food you may get use to it and will always want it.While it is also true that taste buds changes especially as we become older our taste buds becomes less sensitive to different tastes.

I don't think that drinking coffee and tea will change your taste buds, but I do think that peoples' taste buds change as they get older. There are many foods that I hated as a kid and love now, and things I used to like that I don't anymore. Cake is one of them for me, as well - it used to be so good but now I get halfway through the piece and start getting a sugar headache.

i remember reading that our sense of smell and taste also diminish as we grow old, not just our sight and hearing. growing up, i've always liked sweet and salty food. but now, i don't mind sour dishes and looking for sour snacks when i'm sleepy. i can eat bitter vegetables and prefer desserts that's mocha or coffee-flavored. even though i have a sweet tooth, i never liked chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. i know i'll never like spicy food. i also wish i could learn to drink healthy tea, but i've never really liked them.

i'm not sure, i'm not an expert, i'm sure there is scientific explanation for this kind of problem. i also experience it, when u already eat something that very sweet, even your tea u don't put a lot of sugar, u will still taste that the tea already sweet. hope someone will answer your question. hehe

I dont think my taste change because i like to drink tea. Maybe our taste become change when we are older. Like my mother for us that food taste is enough but she put again salt my father is same to. My mother is 60 years old and my father is 72 years old. I believe our taste will change when we older.