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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do most foods taste terrible while going through chemo, but others have no change at all?
gpt
"Everything changed for me" 

"I'll never forget the day that everything tadted like tofu.  Everything tasted like nothing."

Source, wife who went through chemo last year. 

Tastebuds are fast turnover cells that regenerate and die quickly.  Chemo kills the tastebuds before they can develop and mature.  What taste you lose is specific to you individually.    

Source, same wife who is also a doctor.