How to Dull Your Taste Buds

How to Dull Your Taste Buds

If you need to eat or drink something that's unpleasant, knowing how to shut down your sense of taste will come in handy. Here are some tips to numbing your taste buds.

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Exhale. Your taste buds only recognize six tastes: sweet, salty, bitter, sour, Umami (savory), and surprisingly, they can taste calcium too[1]. The rest is in the nose. If you can avoid smelling the food, you'll avoid a large part of the flavor.



2
Drink cold water.You might have noticed that any liquid tastes different when it's hot, than when it's cold. Why is that? It's the same liquid, after all. The fact is that generally, cooling numbs your palate, toning down flavors.


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Drink a strong alcoholic drink. A drink with a high alcohol concentration (like whiskey at proof strength) anesthetizes the nose and sears the tongue.[5]

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Make a peppermint mouthwash. Pour a bottle of peppermint extract into a small cap. Pour the capful into your mouth. Coat your tongue with the extract. Spit out the extract and rinse your mouth with cold water.

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Map out your tongue. Certain areas are more sensitive to certain tastes, but every one's tongue is different.[6] You can find out how your taste buds are organized by dipping a cotton swab in a liquid that exemplifies that taste (like lemon juice for sour, and sugar water for sweet) and put it on different spots on your tongue to see when it "registers"


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Use a straw. If the flavors you're trying to avoid are in a liquid, use a straw so that you can bypass your tongue. All right, so this doesn't actually dull your taste buds - it takes them out of the equation.

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Try miracle fruit. [8] This African berry actually chemically reacts with your taste buds, making everything taste sweet.


8
Dry out your mouth. Your taste is all about chemicals. You taste different things depending on how that food reacts with the saliva in your mouth, so by taking paper towel and completely drying out your mouth, you can eliminate nearly all of the taste.


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Practice. With food or drink you do not want to taste, try eating it beforehand, with food you like. Mainly used for liquids. Try water to practice. Take a gulp, and swallow quickly.



























































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