I share something like this experience (food desirability varies a lot based on unknown factors and something is desirable for maybe a week and then not desirable for months) but haven’t checked carefully that it is about nutrient levels in particular. If you have, I’d be curious to hear more about how.
(My main alternative hypothesis regarding my own experience is that it is basically imaginary, so you might just have a better sense than me of which things are imaginary..)
For a datapoint on general ignorance in this domain, I have never noticed the effects of caffeine on my energy levels, even though I regularly drink energy drinks because my housemates buy lots of them. (I don’t think I’m unusually bad at introspection either.)
I get a sense-of-craving-that-could-be-satisfied-without-taste only for protein and a diffuse “vegetables,” in addition to general hunger signals (though plausibly some of my sugar-craving is triggered by desire for vitamins in fruit, I can’t disentangle it from desire for the taste). Not sure how detailed other peoples’ experiences are.
Huh. Does your experience of taste change depending on how full up you are on a nutrient?
I share something like this experience (food desirability varies a lot based on unknown factors and something is desirable for maybe a week and then not desirable for months) but haven’t checked carefully that it is about nutrient levels in particular. If you have, I’d be curious to hear more about how.
(My main alternative hypothesis regarding my own experience is that it is basically imaginary, so you might just have a better sense than me of which things are imaginary..)
For a datapoint on general ignorance in this domain, I have never noticed the effects of caffeine on my energy levels, even though I regularly drink energy drinks because my housemates buy lots of them. (I don’t think I’m unusually bad at introspection either.)
I get a sense-of-craving-that-could-be-satisfied-without-taste only for protein and a diffuse “vegetables,” in addition to general hunger signals (though plausibly some of my sugar-craving is triggered by desire for vitamins in fruit, I can’t disentangle it from desire for the taste). Not sure how detailed other peoples’ experiences are.
Not that I’ve noticed.