GLP-1 medications have a whole host of bizarre side effects, but a new study suggests one that impacts the way food tastes. While taking the drugs, food may taste sweeter or saltier. Now, new research has identified another (potentially positive) new side effect: It might actually enhance the way you taste food. More than 21 percent of the study participants said that food tasted sweeter than before they started taking the medications, while nearly 23 percent said that food tasted saltier to them. “Maybe healthy foods that didn’t taste as good in the past now taste better.