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
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.
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
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.