Why is fruit so sweet nowadays?

[Anonymous No.14631737]

Just ate an orange and it was disgustingly sweet, almost no orange taste, just a sweet, sugary orange water. Maybe it's the variety, but I remember all fruit tasting less sweet as a kid.

[Anonymous No.14631744]

>>14631737
I had the same thought when eating an apple the other day. It was like eating a sugar packet with apple skin on it.

[Anonymous No.14631746]

Please tell me you have friends or a wall you could run this inane shit by.

[Anonymous No.14631748]

Sugar is addictive and people are animals. All fruit has been bred for maximum shelf life and sweetness for decades. I've started to notice it more in the last few years myself.

[Anonymous No.14631750]

>>14631748
imma fuck yo momma

[Anonymous No.14631751]

as you get older you lose taste buds and sweet is the last to go, how old are you?

[Anonymous No.14631758]

>>14631751
this, it's over for op

[Anonymous No.14631763]

>>14631751
Does that mean you can taste sugar LESS or MORE as you age?

[Anonymous No.14631773]

>>14631746
lol forreal

[Anonymous No.14631797]

>>14631737
You're probably eating a cultivar that's been bred to be extremely sweet or something. Try a different one

[Anonymous No.14631827]

It's the same for me, op. I hate the majority of fruit, though and I don't like sweet things much in general.

[Anonymous No.14631851]

>>14631746
>Food board
>Food discussion

[Anonymous No.14632747]

>>14631763
not that poster, but everything less. like they said sweet is the last to go and it's why older folks are notorious for hard candy(it last longer)

[Anonymous No.14632759]

>>14631737
they genitically modify fruits
>>14631746
this guy doesn't want you to share the information you're spreading because it's not good for his business

[Anonymous No.14632785]

>>14631737
Do you live in America? I had an American teacher who came to Brazil and told me that when he first went to a local supermarket he was disappointed by the size of the fruits and vegetables. But after one bite on an apple changed his opinion completely. He said that small apple had more taste than all big apples he bought in the US.

[Anonymous No.14632989]

>>14632759
>muh GMOs
There are no GMO oranges. Why do people think all food is GMO when there are only 10 GMO foods available in the US?

[Anonymous No.14633001]

>>14631737
More likely GMO bullshit.

[Anonymous No.14634029]

>>14631748
sugar isn't addictive that's kind of oxymoronic since it's an essential nutrient, would be like saying air is addictive.
Fruit may have a natural evolutionary tendency to become less flavorful since the flavor aspect is an energy deficit probably remnant of a mechanism designed to prevent the fruit from being eaten (whether by insects or animals). Since we farm the fruit and remove these evolutionary pressures through pesticides etc the fruits most energy efficient state is to be just a ball of sugar and seeds which is what it will evolve towards (until humans find the lack of flavor negative and counter select cultivars with that trait).

[Anonymous No.14634042]

idk I love how oranges taste now, what I don't like are the goddamn seedless watermelons. No flavor and no fun spitting out seeds.

[Anonymous No.14634050]

>>14631737
Fruit needs more sugar desu

[Anonymous No.14634062]

>>14634050
fuck off fatty

[Anonymous No.14634178]

>>14631737
>grows old
>Dislikes sweet food
Eww , how could this happen?!

[Anonymous No.14634200]

>>14634178
I've never been in love with sugar, even as a kid.

Also, my grandma would eat sweets until she died.

[Anonymous No.14634205]

>>14631744
Ive never been able to eat apples for this reason. My dad would always try to give me apple juice with breakfast and I always felt super fucking sick after.

[Anonymous No.14634263]

>>14631737
Probably too ripe, I pick my own mangoes, picked it right before it's too ripe.

Idk about oranges, but doesn't fruit get sweeter the more ripe it gets in general?

[Anonymous No.14634376]

>>14631737

Depends on your normal diet which your taste buds adjust too. Judging from your post you don't eat fruit regularly or have not done so for a while. You've grown accustomed to whatever food stuffs you eat so the contrast is all the greater when you try something different.

[Anonymous No.14634975]

>>14632989
All modern fruit/vegetable is genetically modified smoothbrain

[Anonymous No.14635624]

>there are people who think GMO is bad or scary
lol
>>14634975
this

[Anonymous No.14635644]

>>14634042
Are you picking out the ripe ones?