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SoylentNews hack explores the seedy underworld of "flavor tripping". See this thread.
Before I started, I used a tongue scraper to clean my tongue. There was some anecdotal talk somewhere of that helping absorption. Probably a good idea anyway.
The effect didn't last very long... about 15 minutes, which is on the short end of the expected 15 minute to 2 hours duration. However there seemed to be a bit of a residual aftereffect where the lemon would still taste a little sweeter... just sour as well. It's hard to tell, and that's a good thing!
- Lemon: Right off the bat, it tastes like lemonade.
- Lime: Distinct limeade taste, as expected.
- Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar: Absolutely tolerable taste, very interesting. I thought of throwing several kinds of vinegar in my mouth but chickened out and settled on just Bragg. I like consuming lots of sour vinegar to begin with but mberry makes it easy.
- Low-calorie/Light Cranberry Juice Cocktail: Whatever edge it had was gone. Not too great of a taste. I decided to get this instead of lemonade/limeade or other juices since I had the actual fruits on hand.
- Sriracha sauce: Tastes a bit like Mae Ploy Sweet Chili Sauce (basically the same as Frank's RedHot Sweet Chili sauce or other brands), but not quite as sweet. As if I needed an excuse to squirt sriracha sauce in my mouth.
- CVS Sour Jacks Watermelon candy: Tasted sweet and unremarkable. Since I've never tried this candy before, I'll have to have some in a couple of hours to judge how sour it really is.
- Dr. Pepper: Interesting results. It was opened yesterday so I didn't know how well the carbonation was maintained. It seemed to sweeten up and mute the flavors. Then when I tried it a few minutes later, I felt the acidity of the phosphoric acid and the carbonated taste much more clearly.
- Navel orange: Very subtle change if any at all, but it was one of the last things I tried.
- Strawberry popsicle: Tried it too late to judge any change. Also, if you're rushing to try things, a popsicle isn't the best thing to have (sherbet/sorbet would have been better).
Unfortunately, I forgot I had homemade lemon curd and lime curd in the fridge. That would have been perfect to try slathered on a ginger snap.
For roughly $1.50 per attempt per person, I'd say flavor tripping is well worth it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 02 2017, @02:51PM
I'm glad you gave it a try.
I forgot to mention before that it is best to do a taste before then after the berries because of the residual aftereffect, plus it makes the change seem more dramatic since you may not remember how sour something really is. I've also only get 15-20 minutes of the full effect (no sourness) for the times I've used either the berries or the tablets, but maybe there are minor effects on taste up to two hours depending on how many things you eat/drink or how much you salivate.