The phrase "altered taste" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a change in someone's preferences or perceptions regarding flavors, food, or experiences.
Example: "After trying the new dish, I found that my altered taste made me appreciate spicy foods more than before."
Alternatives: "changed palate" or "modified flavor preferences".
Taste disorder was graded using the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events v3.0 published by the National Cancer Institute (negative: no change in taste; slight: altered taste but no change in diet; moderate: altered taste with change in diet or noxious or unpleasant taste; severe: loss of taste) [ 14].
As discussed here, there is substantial evidence for altered taste sensitivity, taste-guided liking and wanting, and neural reward processing in the obese, but it is not clear whether such traits cause obesity or whether obesity secondarily alters these functions.
Accompanying local symptoms included mouth dryness, altered taste and oral dysesthesia.
Common side effects of linezolid use (those occurring in more than 1% of people taking linezolid) include diarrhea (reported by 3 11% of clinical trial participants), headache (1 11%), nausea (3 10%), vomiting (1 4%), rash (2%), constipation (2%), altered taste perception (1 2%), and discoloration of the tongue (0.2 1%).
Finally, we measured courtship behavior in males with genetically altered taste neurons.
Before we investigated taste perception in the wild-type (WT) and GHSR null mice, we first determined whether the GHSR null mice had altered taste bud morphology, size or TC numbers.
The big three beverage companies are also endlessly tinkering with combinations of sweeteners and sugars to lower calories without altering taste.
But sodium, which contributes to hypertension and raises the risk of heart disease, must simply be reduced, which can greatly alter taste.
But it can only truly alter taste once it has impacted on how culture is produced and consumed – and once we all become comfortable with the new realities and working practices it creates for us.
Ablation of the mushroom body, a neural locus involved in olfactory memory [27] [29], did not alter taste enhancement.
The plausibility of these mechanisms rests on extensive evidence that caterpillars and other insects can immunologically recognize the presence of internal parasites [41], and that chemical feedbacks from the blood to the insect taste system can adaptively alter taste and feeding responses to macronutrients [42].
