In the past, I've found tofu dishes to be hit or miss, sometimes overly bland for my Indian-trained taste buds, other times more tough than tender.
They had, in fact, trained their taste buds to simply not prefer it.
"You can train your taste buds to be accustomed to lower sodium intakes," says Dr. Johnson.
Reducing the salt content in kids' foods would help train kids' taste buds to enjoy less-salty foods in childhood and as adults.
Be courageous enough to train your taste buds and know that you are not the only person in the world to eliminate something you once loved.
Believe it or not, eating items a lot can train your taste buds to like them!
Over time, you can train your taste buds not to like excessively sweet foods.
Both successfully cross multitudes of national, regional, and ethnic taste buds trained to a variety of deeply ingrained local preferences of taste, flavor, consistency, effervescence, and aftertaste.
Our taste buds are trained in true "American style". We like lots of flavor and that's what we buy.
In fact my children's taste buds are so trained to crave healthy, plant-based options that Katie, my youngest, at two years of age, once spit out her McDonald nuggets during a surprise visit with a friend's Mom, bluntly stating that they were not like the "real" nuggets we had at home.
When most people read this quote, they are envisioning lots of plants, lots of whole grains, and yes, what my patients call "cardboard" -- food that's good for our bodies but not our taste buds (taste buds can be trained, by the way, to enjoy foods you never thought you would).
