How To Change The Flavor Of Your Sperm

Ask a room full of people: "What does cum gustation like to y'all?" And you lot'll probable become a wild range of answers. Responses ranging from: "Like accidentally swallowing sea water" to "Salty. Gloopy." So, clearly, there's no one definitive reply but are there any rules on what healthy semen should taste like? And could factors like nutrition or eating certain foods (we're all enlightened of the pineapple 'myth', right?) make information technology better. Curious? Hither's some practiced advice...

What does cum sense of taste like? Does salubrious semen sense of taste a sure fashion?

Dr Shirin Larkhani, a general practitioner explains that although semen taste can vary hugely from one person to another, in that location are sure common tastes that bespeak semen is salubrious.

"Several fluids combine with sperm to make semen, each influence the way information technology tastes," she says. "The sperm pass through the vas deferens and into the ampulla - where an antioxidant that develops in mushrooms is produced. This may requite semen a slightly mushroomy gustatory modality.

what does cum taste like a medical expert explains how healthy semen tastes

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"The ampulla also adds fructose which may create a sweeter taste. When someone ejaculates more bodily fluids are added from the prostate gland and seminal vesicles which tin can once again modify the taste and smell. It has a bleach like olfactory property due to the alkaline content."

She too says healthy semen is "commonly cloudy white or grey fluid which is thicker than water, and well-nigh jelly-like", but that it tin can be a little yellowy, also.

Tin eating different foods brand semen gustatory modality better?

You've probably heard the rumour that pineapple can make someone'south semen taste nicer. So is there any truth in it? "Although there is no conclusive scientific evidence to evidence this, information technology stands to reason that foods with a potent taste or aroma volition, in plow, bear upon the gustatory modality and smell of semen," Dr Larkhani says.

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"'Potent-tasting vegetables like cauliflower, broccoli, garlic and caffeine may make semen taste or smell unpleasant. Whereas pineapple, oranges and other sweet fruits may make it taste sweeter. This is largely due to how the enzymes in the food break down and affect proteins, thus impacting on the smell and sense of taste.This is highly subjective though, just as our tastes vary with food it'due south logical that our tastes in semen does besides."

General practitioner Dr Diana Gall agrees, maxim semen can have a bitter gustatory modality because it is an element of group i - and that this is why eating acidic foods similar food could change the taste. "Although, you'd need to consume a lot of these foods to notice a change in the taste," she adds.

"Being hydrated or dehydrated also has an result on the taste of your semen, the more hydrated you are the milder the taste volition be. Healthier diets are more than likely to produce better tasting semen that's less biting."

What to exercise if the semen yous're confront-to-face up with smells or tastes a bit... funky

"Our bodies are usually a great judge of smells and tastes that aren't correct, for example nosotros can aroma when meat has gone off or when something is rotten in the refrigerator," she explains. "Too, if semen smells rotten, foul or fishy then something isn't right. It could exist that there is an infection and then it'due south a practiced idea to seek medical communication."

The above smells could exist the sign of an infection or STI, Dr Larkhani explains. It could even be a bacterial infection - and this is more likely if the semen owner is also noticing discharge or itching. If you're concerned, seek medical advice.

People who've tried everything from eating pineapple to quitting smoking to make their semen taste ameliorate

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"Eating pineapple makes it taste like warm nothing"

"Every bit a married woman who has done this experiment with my married man, I can confirm this is true. Hubby started drinking well-nigh 2 cups of pineapple juice/mean solar day for several weeks and I wasn't sure I could really taste a difference. Nosotros did this for about six months, then he stopped drinking it for several months.

"It was during that fourth dimension that I could definitely taste a huge difference. It had a zing to information technology if that makes any sense. So, he went back to drinking the juice and information technology tastes much meliorate. It still doesn't taste 'good' because at the cease of the day, it'due south still cum. However, the juice makes it takes like warm zippo. Like it has no flavour. Much preferred." [via]

"Massive improvement when my partner stopped smoking"

"It'south true, information technology definitely tastes unlike depending on what the person has eaten. I also did not fully realise how foul it tasted when a person smokes, until my partner stopped smoking a few years dorsum. Massive comeback." [via]

"It tastes different if they eat meat"

"My beginning boyfriend was vegan, and I didn't listen the taste of his cum at all... it was kind of a shock in one case I started fucking guys who ate meat. Huge difference." [via]

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Paisley Gilmour Sex & Relationships Editor Paisley is sex & relationships editor at Cosmopolitan UK, and covers everything from sex toys, how to masturbate and sex positions, to all things LGBTQ.