cloy

Reader's Digest 4月号の記事 '25 Ways Sugar Is Making You Sick' からの引用です。
How do you keep added sugar from seeping into your own diet?
I just don't have it around the house. Take all that stuff out of your environment. Once you start cutting back, you'll lose your sweet tooth.
It's a palate phenomenon, and it doesn't take long. You'll notice that you can suddenly taste the natural sweetness in unprocessed food, and you'll start to find processed products cloying and unpleasant.
文脈からして "cloying" は良い意味ではないようです。辞書で意味を調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment.: a romantic, rather cloying story
・Collins Dictionary: to surfeit, or make weary or displeased, by too much of something, esp. something sweet, rich, etc.: We found this just a little cloying in its sweetness, not sufficiently clean, although pleasant enough.
・Macmillan Dictionary: to make you feel sick or annoyed by being too sweet or too pleasant: The smell of her cheap perfume soon began to cloy.
簡単に言うと甘過ぎて気持ち悪い位の感じでしょうか？　私は甘党ではないので分かります。以前は餡子の入った饅頭も食べれませんでした。今でも羊羹は駄目です。