Does it taste good, or not?

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The past few years, I have noticed my tastes for certain foods has changed--a lot. I never used to be bothered much by textures or most spices, and now I am, at least for some of them. One thing that I have really noticed about texture is that I now cannot hardly eat mushy foods. They literally make my tummy just roll over...some things are still good. I like oatmeal and hot cereals. Pudding, some but not all. I still like mashed potatoes. I can't even with overcooked pastas or some sauces. I used to like gravy, now I usually pass on it. Decided I was simply being strange and weird(surely not!) but when I was at the doctor last time, he says that a lot of people go through this. As we age, our taste buds are somewhat diminished, and also certain medical conditions can cause some things to taste bad, things we always really liked. He rattled off some medical conditions that can make foods taste strange--heart failure, diabetes, high blood pressure, poor diet, Parkinson's,Dementia, and there were more, I don't remember them all. I don't suffer from any of those things (not to my knowledge or to the doctor's). And Covid, of course, as well as cancer. In my case, they seem to think it's at least partly allergies. He also said when you stop eating some processed foods, your taste buds really change a lot, so that may be part of my change of tastes in foods.