• sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    a lot of food tastes weirdly sweet when it starts to go bad

    it's a slight sweetness that is unpleasant in an indescribable way. It doesn't taste outright rotten but it's kind of like a "twilight zone", you get the instinct that this isn't a normal type of sweetness

    • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This would make sense. pectin, cellulose, and starch are polymers of sugars. Their breakdown products would be sweet before those sugars are fermented into lactic and acetic acids.