Kaarin

I hate the taste of alcohol, but for the effect it produces, I suffer through shots. Generally straight Jack Daniels, due to it’s high alcohol content, I don’t have to drink too many.

I have a serious sweet tooth though, my diet consists of mainly fast food, and candy. Lots of candy. I also drink lots of regular coke.

I love most meat, but don’t care much for steak. I only ever put salt on a few things, like corn-on-the-cob, and flank-steak.

I hate cheese! However, I love Pizza (with no vegies at all of course), and I love Cheese Fondue.

I love Milk, but only 2%, I can’t stand 1%. I don’t like most fancy deserts, but do loving icing sugar and frosting.

I really don’t care for fancily prepared food.

Aaron.

It sure sounds like your dislikes fall in line with the standard supertaster preferences. Dark greens, bitter beer, hot/spicy food, pungent cheese, etc. It would be very interesting if you could post back the results of your testing, as I’d really be curious to see the results, if you care to share them.

Thanks,

Scott

- Onions – Raw or cooked I don’t like them, but raw is much worse. I can pick onions off a salad or burger, but if they’ve already touched my food, I can detect them, in taste and smell. I find their flavor to be way too dominant.
- Beer – I’ve had one beer that I enjoyed, six years ago, on tap in Canada, and to this day I don’t know what it was. In my search, all I’ve come across were horrible bitter beers that I can’t choke down, and others say that my taste just isn’t refined yet. Whatever, it tastes like furniture polish!
- Swiss cheese – Hated it as a kid, hate it now! It’s very bitter, but so many people I know love it!
- Raisins – There’s something pungent about the flavor of raisins, and I can’t even describe what grosses me out about them. It’s too powerful a combination of fruit/sweet/bitter. I can’t even eat Raisinettes.
- Ham – Far too salty, and a little more sweet than I think meat should taste. I can eat a small amount, like during holidays, but I can’t like it.
- Peppers – Peppers of all kinds. Bell peppers just don’t taste good to me, and regardless of what everyone tells me, I know they’re spicy, even if it’s just a little. Over the weekend I ate an hors d’oeuvre that had a green pepper in it. I can handle green bell peppers, even if I don’t like them much. Turns out this was a jalapeno wedge that was scraped of its seeds (supposedly). My mouth burned painfully for several agonizing minutes! I felt like such a pansy! I was in the middle of a restaurant with tears in my eyes! Funny in retrospect, but sooo not so at the time!
- Raw greens – it isn’t impossible for me to eat these, but the whiter my leaves, the better. Over the years, I learned that most things are bitter, especially those things that are best for me, so I taught myself to suck it up and eat them, but I never enjoy them. I always have to accompany a bite of greens with something else, cheese, meat, anything. Either that or make it go down as quick as possible. I’ve come to associate bitter veggies with health and tried to condition myself to experience it as a good thing. It’s not easy.

Potatoes are my comfort food! But often I find they’re prepared with too much salt. I rarely use salt on anything. In fact, I rarely season anything at all when I cook, unless I’m cooking for others.

I do have a considerable sweet tooth, but for more diluted sweetnesses (I cannot stand cake frosting, but I like ice cream, as long as it’s not rich). I like soft drinks, but I can’t drink anything with artificial sweeteners, be it aspartame or sucralose, I can taste it and I can’t stand it. Although, this particular aversion seemed to develop over the last several years (I’m almost 26 now)

I also don’t enjoy the taste of any alcohol. I like to go out drinking with friends, but normally I can only nurse one or two drinks. Straight liquor is very hard for me to drink. Shots make me nearly gag.

Anyway, I hate to go on and on about myself, but the point I’m trying to make is that while I’m waiting for the PROP test, I’m interested to hear the opinions of supertasters. Does it seem like I fall into this category, or could I be a normal taster who is just a wimp to several things? Don’t be afraid to tell me you suspect the latter!

Yeah, I hear you. I can say that now that I’m older (approaching 50), I’m getting more tolerant of food that I didn’t used to like. I don’t know if that’s typical for supertasters, but I’m glad for it!

Scott

Things I Hate:
cauliflower
corn (gag)
peas (gag)
celery (ewww)
mustard
mayo
nearly any sauce, including soy
most nuts/nut butters
yogurt, especially greek (shudder)
milk
tomatoes are one of the WORST. I try so hard to like them but I simply cannot.
pickles
seafood
cucumbers
most cheeses
salsa
avocado
most meats
most rice
any chinese or asian food, I gag at the smell. Like sweet and sour chicken? Thinking of it makes me want to vomit. There is nothing at Panda Express, for example, that I can eat (if I could even stand walking into the building).

I actually like carrots, broccoli, spinach a teensy bit, peanuts, and I have a sweet tooth. I love almost any fruit – I tolerate grapefruit and sometimes like it depending on the bitterness of the individual fruit.

I wish I could enjoy more foods. Me going out to eat, or even to someone’s house, is pathetic. I feel bad not taking anything they offer me, but I would if I could.

With regards to green veggies, there was initially only one that I could eat, and that was canned Del Monte Cut Green Beans, but *not* the French, Seasoned, Whole, or Italian. And fresh green beans from the produce section make me gag. But, to this day I still eat the canned ones all the time, although now I’ve added asparagus and broccoli to the green vegetable rotation, as well as some zuccini/squash.

And good luck with your little one! My oldest daughter is also a supertaster, and we just had a little one and we’re waiting to see how her tastes develop, since my wife is a normal taster.

Thanks for posting!

Scott