Consuming certain foods, particularly those that strongly stimulate the senses or salivary glands like sour or spiced foods, can trigger gustatory sweating as a normal physiological reflex.
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Hyperhidrosis: A Central Nervous Dysfunction of Sweat Secretion
2023 · cited by 40
Paper [5] notes that sweating can be triggered by gustatory stimuli.
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Diabetic Gustatory Sweating
1978 · cited by 27
Paper [9] discusses gustatory sweating, noting that facial sweating is a physiologic response to eating highly spiced food and can be triggered by specific foods.
Frey's syndrome after condylar fracture: case report
2004 · cited by 24
Paper [10] explains that gustatory sweating occurs over the auriculotemporal nerve distribution while eating foods that strongly stimulate salivation, which includes sour foods.