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brenda | 13:23 Sun 19th Apr 2015 | Food & Drink
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simple foodstuffs like cheese, tomatoes and bananas become less flavoursome recently, or is it just me?
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I think tomatoes are grown to be much the same size. They've sacrificed flavour for that. A lot of cheeses, particularly 'mature' cheddars can seem very bland.
you I suspect. How are your sinusses? Much of the taste of food is in its smells even though we perceive them as tastes. Do you get hay fever? Have you had a bad cold this year? I had a shocker and had a long spell afterwards (around six weeks) when I lost quite a lot of my sense of taste.
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Thank you both, and yes have had a bad cold recently.Problem solved ,so many thanks.Brenda.
brenda for about six weeks, I live on very salty, sweet, or sour foods and sharp or sour drinks because it was all i could taste. It was a pretty bad diet.
Hello, many of the bananas have become floury with no flavour, I believe it is due to the variety Ours have certainly ben very mixed
bananas and cheddar cheese are definitely less tasty, can't say about tomatoes.I am allergic to them
Home grown Tomatoes taste like tomatoes used to
Keep and serve tomatoes at room temperature. They taste sooo much nicer, and do in fact last for quite a long time, even outside a fridge.
If I had my way anyone who puts their tomatoes in the fridge should be lined up and pelted with them.

It completely kills not only the flavour but the texture.
Chilling food kills the flavour. I don't keep cheese in the fridge nor cooked meats unless it is very hot, then I take it out a couple of hours before I eat it.

Some bananas are just nasty, horrid texture and no flavour.
Make sure you choose mature Cheddar, and not just any mature Cheddar. Most supermarket cheeses come with a 1 to 5 rating. Personally, if I see a so-called "mature" cheddar with a rating of three, somebody is telling porkies. Choose a 5 and you won't go wrong. Cheddar should attack your taste buds with a hatchet !

Tomatoes at this time of year are not at their best. If you have ever been to Italy on holiday, you will know what a real tomato tastes like ! Best leave them get riper before eating. Ditto with bananas.....if they are not ripe, the sugars haven't been able to develop.

I recently bought a Golden Delicious apple, from Lidl. I left it for a week or so and its was really nice !

I'm afraid that we are being distracted in our food purchases by wanting everything to "last" in our 'fridges for ages. Buy often and choose for ripeness !

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