what you shouldn't eat should you be stuck on a dessert island.. is PINEapples... YES, pineapples.. i don't know if you know this or not, but i just descoverd pineapples are bad for you in large quantaties... they rot your gums and make your teeth fall out.. soo.. watch out for them pineapples... they are deadly.. i can't believe it... i just ate some pineapple and my mum informed me.. *brushes teeth like i'm on speed*
I've never liked 'em, always harboured a deep suspicion, nice to be vindicated Now all we need is some proof that fizzy orange is a totally vile perversion of nature. Something thought up by corporate meglomaniacs for fascist regimes no doubt... p.s.(I didn't click on this thread 'cos i thought it said NIPPLES, honest..) ~
i can only eat them in small quantities anyway....am a tad allergic this fellow has seems to have found another use for them though
While on the fizzy orange subject, could somebody research the reason why oranges taste so awful after brushing your teeth/eating a mint?
Everything is bad for you in large quantities.. Freshly squeezed fruit juice including pineapple juice is good for you..were in the world find out such a thing (down the WI? ). I would not go that far about 'corporate meglomaniacs' and 'fascist regimes' hahahaha, a lot of the drinks that are out there are cheap imports made by small companys for f*ck all, thats why they taste nasty and have vast amounts of sweetners and additives in them; to give them some 'taste'. The vast amounts of suger they pump into some of those drinks is going to be bad for you. Everything in moderation thats what i think, if you wish to pour vast amounts of crap into your system don't be suprised if your system deciedes to respond.
because the chemicals in fizzy orange juice don't mix well with the chemicals in the mint. One extreme to another...wash your mouth out with water and then drink some fizzy orange juice. matt Phd in pseudoscience
:H Look what i found : Coca Cola want to continue to sell to Nazi Germany, so invent 'Fanta'. look under the heading '4.1. Corporations are only loyal to profit' ~
One theory is that this is caused by detergents like sodium lauryl sulphate which are added to toothpastes to make them foam. Detergents apparently suppress the sweet taste sensors in your mouth but not the sour / bitter ones. So when you drink or eat orange after brushing your teeth you are unable to register the sweetness of the flavour and taste nothing but the bitter / sour taste of the citrus. One solution to this is to get detergent-free toothpaste. It doesn't explain the same thing happening after eating a mint though. Is the odd taste of orange the same after eating a mint as it is after using toothpaste? If so perhaps it has something to do with the menthol numbing your taste receptors. If it's a different weirdness of taste, then perhaps there are two distinct processes in operation:sunglasse
yep, found that one too Some interesting quotes from your chosen link: "Fanta sold well enough to keep the plants operating and Coca-Cola people employed." "Their misgivings aside, Keith was safeguarding Coca-Cola interests and people during that period of no contact." "He also could have made a fortune for himself by bottling and selling Fanta under his own name. Instead, in the face of having to work for the German government, he kept the Coca-Cola plants in Germany running and various Coca-Cola men alive throughout the war. At the end of the conflict, he welcomed the Coca-Cola company back to its German operations and handed over both the profits from the war years and the new soft drink." <cough> yeh right! Safe to say; I believe neither link!! ~
This would be a good explanation if the orange simply became bland rather than sweet, but it doesn't explain how the bitter taste becomes so overwhelming. I think I have to agree with Matthew's explanation of the mix creating the bad taste, rather than the mint affecting the tastebuds
It depends what kind of interpretion you want . Nazi stormtroopers parading around while vast profits from said factories being spent on bombs guns and such is a bit OTT. A person wishing to keep his employees in work not so OTT.
If this were the case then brushing your teeth straight after drinking orange juice would also make the toothpaste taste really bad... I've just tried this, and it doesn't. It's just the after-effects of toothpaste which affect the taste of orange. It seems likely that the bitterness of orange is mitigated by its sweetness; take away the sweetness and you are left with only the bitterness, and that's why it tastes so bad. In the spirit of discovery I'm going to try to get hold of some non-mint flavoured toothpaste which does contain sodium lauryl sulphate to put the detergent theory to the test!
I need a third party present during these scientific experiments. I think you will make the results up. http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem00/chem00216.htm
But with toothpaste, the damn stuff stays in your mouth for a long time. I still taste toothpaste ten minutes after brushing my teeth. Orange taste isn't as strong as toothpaste taste. If it's the after-effects of toothpaste, then eating an orange and brushing your teeth at the same time would be fine. I'm not going to try this because I'd look like a bloody ninny. Any volunteers? FOR SCIENCE!!!!
No because whatever it is in toothpaste which affects your taste receptors would be doing its job and making the orange taste nasty. Plus you would then have a mixture of clashing flavours in your mouth which probably wouldn't go too well together. The issue at hand is why brushing your teeth makes orange taste bad for quite a while after you've brushed. This effect lasts for quite a few minutes after brushing - unless you actually hold toothpaste froth in your mouth all this time, the "mixture" theory is flawed. The effect occurs long after you've rinsed your mouth out with water so it is clearly something in toothpaste which affects the taste receptors themselves
I already have... Maybe I brush my teeth wrong, but even after rinsing my mouth out there is still trace amounts of toothpaste juice there. I've never brushed, then rinsed long or vigorously enough to remove all the toothpaste taste or the weird white-ish tint on the tongue, which is an indicator to me that there's still toothpaste there. Unless the mint taste is so overpowering that it confuses the taste buds for a while, like how when you drink a cup of tea after eating an ice lolly it "tastes" cold. But the bad orange tastes occurs with far less powerful mints, such as Polo spearmints.
