Overall, the experience left me just a little disillusioned because, besides a few certain foods, I really didn’t taste the drastic alterations in taste perception that I have read about prior to doing this: for instance, I could still not easily palate the vinegar and it did not taste nearly as sweet as those testimonies led me to believe it would. However, this could have very well also been a symptom of expectations and a self-fulfilling prophecy of denial: I honestly did not believe there would be such drastic changes, so perhaps my perceptions followed my expectations. Which is not to say I did not taste any changes. In fact, I was delighted by the taste of all of the citrus, which tasted much sweeter (almost like candy), especially the customarily bitter ones such as grapefruit. I normally associate grapefruit with an undesirable, bitter taste (I have to remind myself of this when I buy one every year or so thinking it might not be as bitter as I remembered), but, with the berries, that association was drastically altered, with the post-berry grapefruit now tasting as sweet as other citrus.
With this in mind, I would quite enjoy having one day once in a blue moon during which lemons and limes tasted like lemonade and limeade, respectively, and grapefruits did not have their bitter aftertaste. Regardless, it would obviously become commonplace when repeated multiple times and one could expect the entire novelty to die down after too much repetition. In fact, one could imagine this sweeter register of the palate becoming one’s default taste if done too often; this, of course, may not be a problem, but it would then it may very well lead to the pining for those other taste sensations, such as the taste of a bitter grapefruit, that would thus become much more exotic. Feelings such as “surprise” almost by definition must resist becoming commonplace, or they have lost a necessary component of their essence. It was a pleasant surprise to bite into a slice of lemon and have it taste as sweet as a gulp of lemonade (with none of the added sugar!), but when that taste is repeated it becomes rather mundane. In any case, these feelings are so enjoyable and human nature is so taken by them, that it seems only natural for them to become commonplace due to overexposure.