Prioritise cold or lukewarm food and preparations.

Choose cold or room temperature foods. These are better tolerated because they give off less odour than hot ones: pasta salads, sandwiches, cold soups, homemade ice cream, etc.

Rinse your mouth before meals and maintain good oral hygiene.

You can use water and baking soda, lemon, or chamomile to rinse your mouth. It is important to brush your teeth after meals.

Avoid foods that can worsen constipation

Such as quince, banana, white rice, toasted bread, baked apple, or compote.

Protein-rich foods may cause increased off-flavours. To ensure their consumption, meat, fish, seafood, and eggs should be prepared in a way that masks the unpleasant taste they may cause.

Marinating meat and fish in citrus juices, sweet and sour sauces, or non-spicy spices. Eat meat mixed with sweet or aromatic foods or condiments (fruit, nuts, compotes, jams, marmalades, honey, etc.). Use recipes that mix well different ingredients such as puddings, croquettes, fritters, empanadas, or cannelloni.

Prepare unfamiliar or different dishes.

Very often, the bad taste of food occurs when it does not meet the expectations of the dish; if you prepare dishes that you have never tried before, you minimise the effect of expectation and can better tolerate strange tastes. It is an opportunity to get to know new food cultures and to choose spicy… Continue reading Prepare unfamiliar or different dishes.

Eating tapas-style (small amounts of different dishes and not too much of a single dish): the metallic taste usually appears after a while.

To ensure that by eating tapas all the necessary nutrients are incorporated, start from the ratio of the the plate method. Follow the next recipe as an example.