Why is that when I have tea, coffee or hot chocolate and also eat something sweet like a chocolate or donut, just after taking a bite I’ll sip my beverage and it will be bitter as hell. Why do taste buds do such a thing?
In: Biology
It’s a thing called habituation.
basically, nerves are at their most sensitive when they aren’t really being used.
So, when you start eating something sweet, your taste buds for sweetness begin to lose their sensitivity.
Meanwhile, your taste buds for bitterness are still as sensitive as ever.
So, if you then taste something that’s less sweet and more bitter, you won’t taste the sweetness as much, but you’ll taste the bitterness just fine.
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