The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Can you retrain your taste? Following the switch to primal eating, people often share curious observations about their shift in taste.

After a lifetime of eating sugar, grains, artificial flavors, and hydrogenated oils,

they're often taken by surprise at the way their taste buds react to a low-sugar, whole-foods-based diet.

Granted, it doesn't happen overnight, but it happens.

Many say the effect sneaks up on them over the course of several weeks

until one day they realize their sense of taste has gone into hyperdrive.

Then they look across the cubicle aisle and watch their co-workers inhaling bags of chips

or uninterestingly sucking away on sugary beverages. And it occurs to them, all those wasted

years as their taste buds languished and processed monotony. It's one of the unexpected upsides

of the Primal Blueprint Diet, learning and relearning the nuance of real food flavor. The experience

doesn't just reflect a psychological shift either. Taste to climatization is a real measurable thing.

What do we know about the process? Quite a bit, actually. Some of it rather surprising. Sugar

Consumption and Your Taste taste buds. A 2016 study published in the

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition examined the effect of reduced simple sugar intake on a group of

healthy men and women. The study broke the participants up into two groups. With one group, they assigned a low-sugar

diet and the other group continuing to eat their usual high-sugar diet. After three

months of this, both groups were left to eat however they pleased for yet another month.

Each month during the study, participants were asked to rate the sweetness and pleasantness

of vanilla puddings and raspberry beverages that varied in sugar concentration.

After the third month of dieting, the low sugar group rated the pudding to be around

40% sweeter than the control group, regardless of how much sugar the pudding contained.

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