Puester wrote:
> Ken Davey wrote:
>
> > The worst thing about all this is that food has become uninteresting
> > I mean - something tasty ain't anymore.
> > It is a real effort to feed myself.
> > Junk food (dammnitt) seems to be a way to go to keep sufficient caloric
> > intake.
> > Just about anything I haven't eaten since the operation seems to taste
> > good - once!
> > The next time I can't force it down.
> > I have a fridge full of leftovers that I can't face.
> > All that be what it is.
> > I will rise above this.
>
>
> When my mom had her stomach surgery she craved bitter food,
> particularly grapefruit, lemon and occasionally oranges.

Those are sour, not bitter... although the pith of citrus rind can be
bitter , notably grapefruit pith, but are typically not eaten except
candied, and then they taste sweet. There really aren't a lot of foods
in the human diet that are bitter... most mammals have a built in
aversion to bitter tasting substances as a natural means of survival as
most poisonous substances are bitter, like rhubarb leaves.

Quinine water is a good example of a popular bitter tasting substance.
Some bitter foods a chicory, endive, radicchio, dandelion greens,
olives and dandelion root, coffee (preferable drunk black without
sugar) and chocolate the same.

Sheldon