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Anything extremely sweet, sour, bitter, salty, spicy, or hot can affect your taste buds.

Examples include:

  • Alum
  • Hot peppers
  • Pure caffeine
  • High intensity sweeteners (like Neotame)
  • Pickles
  • etc.

A fun example is the Miracle Fruit. This fruit has a compound known as miraculin. When you eat miraculin, it alters your taste buds and makes sour things taste sweet for up to 24 hours.

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