Can you change the flavour of meat by changing the diet of the animal?

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For example, if you feed an animal a diet of something such as mushrooms it’s whole life could this make the meat of the animal taste slightly like mushroom?
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Kind of, but it wouldn’t work like that. The properties of a mushroom that makes it taste like a mushroom would be completely lost as the animal digested it and turned it into tissue. However, the general distribution of macronutrients matters. An animal fed a high-fat diet will have fattier meat, etc.

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