Do some people just naturally not like sweet tasting foods? (cookie, cream)

[DTL3000]

Originally Posted by Trimac20

I occasionally hear people who say they 'don't like sweet tasting foods' or sweet tastes, or they much prefer savoury. Often, I notice, it's older people but occasionally young too.

Being a sweet-tooth I definitely don't fall into that category, but I'd find it strange if someone didn't like anything sweet at all like chocolate, lolly/candy/sweets, cake, sugary drinks, ice cream.etc. Even fruit, I suppose.

Do you think there's a psychological/neurological reason for it? That some people just don't like sweet foods?
Do some people grow out of them?

I read the book "Sugar, Salt, Fat"(not sure if they're in the right order and the name of the author escapes me) and it stated that there is a lot of evidence that children really do crave sweets much more than adults, hence all the super sweet breakfast cereals aimed at them.

[Caligula1]

My Mother claims to hate sugar, my Grandmother as well..
Put bowl of ice cream or a candy bar in front of either one and just try to take it away..

I dare ya!!

[magicshark]

I am not a huge fan of sweet tasting food. My ten year old eats virtually nothing sweet. He does not like ice cream, cake, pie, chocolate, he likes one cookie, Italian anise cookies, candy, etc. He finds most fruit too sweet same with juice. He has always been like this.
On the other hand the four year old and my husband are freaks about sweetness.

[JustJulia]

My uncle doesn't care for sweets. If someone made an apple crisp, he'd have a little, but he will never buy or make sweet things for himself. His brothers love sweets, so I know it's not just his upbringing.

I enjoy some chocolate things, but I do not understand the "better than sex" chocoholic mindset. I never crave it. I know it's not just a woman thing either, because my dad (brother to the sweet-averse uncle) and my mom both go nuts for chocolate. My oldest daughter hates it.

[1Luckylady]

I have never been a sweets person. I take that back- a chocolate person. I'll eat a fruity candy but never any chocolate. Nor ice cream either. I guess I just like salty products like kids like candy. My kids think I'm off my rocker.

[Almrausch]

I am very selective when it comes to sweetness.I like certain type of German cakes,no candies,rather say no to ice cream and chocolate you can put in front of me and I could look at it without drooling.Give me cheese and I eat it just like that
The funny thing I bake so much including all the Christmas cookies and I only taste test but never indulge when they come fresh out of the oven.

[1Luckylady]

I'm the same Alm. Don't know why I don't really care for sweets, especially chocolate but that's the way it is.

[Lisalu910]

Originally Posted by PeachSalsa

None of my kids like sweets. Halloween was all about dressing up and seeing how many houses they could get to, but once they got home with their loot, they dumped it all in bowls and it sat there. I'd pick out a few pieces to freeze to give them at Christmas , and they were excited to find it in their stockings at Christmas, but they still did not eat it. Easter baskets - no candy, because they never ate it. Cookies? They'd eat one or 2, but then they were done.

My kids were like that too. None of them like birthday cake, and I hate getting one just for show and then throwing most of it away. I wish I could find a foam rubber cake that I can reuse for all the birthdays! Now my six year old granddaughter is the same way, she doesn't like sweets, won't eat birthday cake, and can't be tempted with candy. I suppose it is genetic.

[nmnita]

I can not say I truly do not like sweets, but I am very selective. To me, sweets should be sweet but no reason to have sweet salad dressings, sauces or use sugar in cooking itself. Save the sugar for desserts. When I see a recipe calling for tbsp. of sugar in a salad dressing or in an Italian sauce I have to wonder, why? This goes for bbq sauce as well. There are a very few things I cook that I add sugar to: one is a pork roast, I might do a sweet and sour glaze or for dipping egg rolls, I use a combination of sweet and spicy, more spicy than sweet for sure.

[Aery11]

I just can't stand sweet drinks - not even fruit juice. All way too sweet. I think I 'trained' myself that way though - I used to, in my 20s, drink lousy workplace coffee and the only way to swallow that stuff was to put sugar and cream in. Then I decided I needed to lose some weight and dropped all the 'fixin's forever - and if someone mixes up my drink and gives me sweetened iced tea for instance, it is awful. I now drink only black coffee, tea plain, and water these days.


I am not a chocoholic - could take it or leave it - but if I do eat it, it is always the highest cacao content I can find - so the least sweet. The same goes for most candy but once a year when the new crop maple syrup/candies come out (and they are VERY sweet) if I allow myself some (since I can find myself craving that 'taste') it takes me at least 4 days of nothing sweet to wean myself off it (and I will indulge till I get tough with myself). At any rate, they just don't understand me when I tell them thanks but no thanks when they offer me their goodies. I do bake for them though on occasion - and leave it with them!


I am not into sweet salads or salad dressings. I find them cloying. But, I do like a bit of sweetness in a fiery Thai curry for instance - helps to balance it all out. I use coconut sugar usually. It is less sweet.


I went for dinner at my neighbour's house not long ago. I noticed that almost everything we ate was sweet - the salads, the ribs, even the potatoes seemed a bit 'doctored' (almost sweet potato sweet). And around here, the women DO love their baking. I think this is a regional thing though .. and perhaps a bit 'old fashioned' - I remember my mother's coleslaw when I was a kid - no sugar per se but the apples and raisins were sweet enough.


Wish I could just drop the other bad carbs as easily as I dropped sugar. I could still stand to lose a few pounds.