Why do we taste bad when we eat right after brushing our teeth?

Common sense asks us not to eat anything right after brushing our teeth, right? The problem is that this does not always happen, and it is quite normal that, right after brushing after breakfast, for example, you feel like having coffee or chocolate. If this happens, you already know: the taste of the experience will not be good!

Apparently the culprit of this is sodium lauryl sulfate, a substance present in some types of toothpaste. Manufacturers often add agents known as surfactants so that the cream slides better through the mouth and froths - these ingredients can also be found in products such as softeners, detergents and paints.

It turns out that these substances don't just act by foaming or causing the toothpaste to slide better through the mouth. A side effect, say, of surfactants is to mess with the functionality of our taste buds.

Mess in the buds

First, our buds are confused by their task of recognizing sweet flavors, which is why we can't taste the sweet taste of orange juice, for example if we drink it right after oral hygiene. Surfactants then make our tongue feel bitter and sour flavors more strongly - this is because toothpaste breaks down a protection of fat on the tongue that softens bitter and sour flavors. That is...

This is why eating right after brushing your teeth is not a good idea either because of the logic of the thing or the taste issue, which will inevitably be altered and will create confusion with sweet, bitter and sour flavors. If you want, you can look for products that do not have surfactants or that do less foam: so you can not suffer so much at breakfast time after lunch.

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