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The Detasting Pill
A special pill/mouth wash temporarily impares your ability to taste sweet flavors | |
Without the ability to taste sweet flavors
your cravings for those kinds of foods
wane allowing you to readjust to healthy
flavors.
- notes -
Works like an anesthetic. Lasts a day.
Permanent Dieting Aid
Permanent_20Dieting_20Aid
This idea sounds like a variant on the one linked, though I prefer the temporary nature, and the specificity (sweetness) of this one... [zen_tom, May 09 2005]
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This might just work for some people. [+] |
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I have little trust in anything that dulls the senses. How long is temporary meant to be? |
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Why have this when you can have mind altering drugs? You can hear tastes instead of taste tastes (ok, that was warped, sorry). |
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Wouldn't people just crave to takes sweet sour and everything between tastes properly? |
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What is that new taste that is all the rage? It's got some
japanese name that translates into "the fifth taste".
Hmmm |
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Umami - it's supposed to be a sort of beefy, yeasty, salivary, savoury, enzymy, mushroomy, seaweedy kind of yummy, monosodium glutomatey kind of taste. |
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It's the taste of amino acids, so it comes out in steak and eggs mainly. Try thinking about the similarities, and you can see what I mean. The other tastes are sweet, salt, sour and bitter (spicy and minty are just temperature stimulators). |
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Personally, I don't like the idea. Foods are made up of a combination of lots of flavours, so taking one out would probably make everything taste different. And not being able to taste something might not make me stop eating it. Chocolate would still give you the sugar/caffeine/dopamine rush even without the taste. |
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