The Genetic Reasons Why You Love (or Hate) Certain Foods
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Weird History Food is getting into the Genetic Reasons Why You Like Certain Foods. Here's some good news for picky eaters: genetic dispositions cause you to enjoy the taste of certain foods but not others. If some cultural food choices seem baffling to you, that's normal. Why do people eat what they eat? Why does something you eat taste completely different to someone else of a different race or ethnicity? Of course, taste can also be influenced by things that happen during your upbringing or by disease risk factors coded into DNA. Mainly, though, it's a mixture of many of these.
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So wanted to chime in with an odd personal experience. I had always been one of the soap cilantro people until covid knocked out my taste for a while. It fully recovered, but afterwards I found that cilantro just tastes fresh and grassy now, which is how others have described it!
I have a friend who also tasted the cilantro soap but he loved it and went back for more.
That's fascinating!
That's seriously freaking awesome!
@@missylou725 talk about silver lining, right?
That is super interesting!
I'm allergic to capsaicin. Like actually allergic, I get a rash and swell badly when I come into contact with it. It makes eating out, or anything pre-packaged, really hard for me. Generic ingredients like "spices" usually include something I can't have. It really sucks. I get made fun of and people even try to "prove me wrong" by shoving spicy food in my face or tampering with my food, since they assume I just don't like the heat or spicy foods. Not that at all. I will actually die if I eat it. It's what scares me the most. I've had coworkers try to poison me, to see if I am just overexaggerating, and they got away with it because people just don't believe I really am allergic. It's scary. Imagine if I, or anyone, did this to someone claiming a peanut allergy. Everyone would be right on their side immediately.
One of my close friends is also allergic to capsaicin, so I totally get this one. There are folks out there who don't believe food allergies are real. I'm deathly allergic to mushrooms, and like you, I've had coworkers poison me because they wanted to see me react.
Boring
I like how you pointed out that experience has an impact. I enjoy sardines. When I was very young, my grandfather was told to eat them for health purposes, and he'd share them with me. Since they're "Grandpa food," I enjoy them greatly without actually liking the flavor all that much.
My grandfather used to buy oysters for my mother when she was a little girl. Because they were a special treat with Dad, she ate them, but didn't really like them. Years later she told her dad this, and he admitted that he didn't like them either, but thought she did.
@@appeal2nature 🥰 That sounds about right. The things we do for those whom we love.
I like sardines, but I have liked pickled herring since age 5.
@@appeal2naturehaha that's cute
Growing up, I didn't like rhubarb. My grandmother grew it in her garden and often had some kind of rhubarb desert to offer when we visited, but I didn't like it. After she passed away, I began associating rhubarb with her and began to enjoy it. It's a reminder of summer visits to her house.
This reminded me about the myth that was taught to me in school how you taste different flavors on different regions of your tongue- this is simply not true.
I always wondered where that tongue chart came from….while disproving it by placing a Warhead sour candy over various parts of my tongue, and discovering no difference.
@@edwardleemiller-eo8jpthe guy who created the tastebud chart did it as a visual guide. It wasn’t supposed to be taken literally.
@@andrewkahler - aye but my 8 year old self did not realize that.
It’s not real? 😭😭😭
Yes...so many of us were taught the wrong info!
As a child people thought me very strange as I wasn't a huge fan of sweets. I in fact had what people called a green tooth as I loved vegetables of all kind(except raw tomatoes). Any parents of friends who had me over for dinner loved the fact that I had seconds and thirds of vegetables (unless they were mushy, can't stand mushy vegetables)
My son from a toddler age loved fresh bread over sweets. I always had to buy a fresh bread roll when he smelled the bread coming from the oven. He never begged for sweets. He even worked at a bakery over December in high school.
My ex had a green tooth. But that's from the meth.
@@KittynFranky7643 our bodies don't k own the difference between carbohydrates and sugar. It all processes into sugar in the end. My sponsor is a diabetic and he says stuff like bread, potatoes and carrots will jack his blood sugar up more than actual sweets.
@@Killem-Dafoe must smell lovely.
You seemed to be turned off by textures of food rather than their flavor. Mushy vegetables and slimy, jelly-like contents of tomatoes just didn't work. Certain textures of foods turn me off, like okra.
I have a cousin with celiac disease, which we only discovered while she was overseas. We had to get her a medi-vac flight, from a jungle in South America, because she was bleeding into her bowel. It was so bad she had to have part of her lower bowel removed. She was only 19. Poor kid.
PTC is soooo bitter! We did a PTC taste test in high school and wow - about 10 of us could taste it, while the other 20 couldn’t taste it at all.
Oddly enough, I love bitter and sour foods: lemons, grapefruit, broccoli, brussel sprouts etc.
I’m probably a super-taster as well as I’ve always been able to eat something and pick out individual flavours/ingredients as well, even tiny amounts of spices and herbs, which comes in handy when attempting to recreate dishes I’ve eaten while travelling.
That is awesome! My late wife could read a recipe and imagine the flavor and add or subtract ingredients while cooking it.
@@scorpiouk5914 it sounds like she was an amazing woman 😊.
There is a difference between lactose intolerance and being allergic to milk
I got addicted to hot peppers as a teen. My brother got a jar of pickled jalapenos & we were eating them on top of rold gold pretzels. We were like, "AAAAHHRG THIS SUCKS!" but an hour later we were both back for more. 😅
I never lost my taste for jalapenos and other fairly hot foods, but seemingly out of nowhere (and early, around mid-20's), there was a "price" to pay the next morning that just became too much to be worth it. That said, "tamed" jalapenos are the one of the greatest recent inventions of my time, imo.
For me it's not even fluid but I can suddenly start to feel the hot food going through my body all through the end. @@joez.2794
I have the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap and yet, I still like it.
You have the power of unlimited snacks at Lush
But, do you like soap?
@@CntrazZombie4 haha. No, not to eat. Of course, not. Lol😀. But I don't mind the soapy-aspect of cilantro, for some reason. I also like eating floral flavours like rose, violet and jasmin so I wonder if that has anything to do with it.
i hate corriander its so gross
Tastes like soap, and I do not like it. My mom and sister think it tastes lie soap, too. None of us can eat it.
I'm 50 years old and was diagnosed as a manic depressive since 2002. My serotonin level practically has to be shipped in. I have absolutely no problem differentiating tastes
Weird question here but do you ever eat certain things while manic that you don’t care for when not manic?
I have a pretty extreme example of this. I have a rare metabolic disease, called Citrin Deficiency. It's a urea cycle disorder that is due to a lack of the protein Citrulin in my body, which is required to break down carbohydrates. So, I don't like carbs! I've never been able to handle super sweet foods, don't like bread, and so on. Because the body is awesome, it also gives me an affinity for fat, since your body uses fat for energy after carbohydrates! So, although I don't like bread, if I lather butter on it, I can eat the buttery parts at least. So, carbohydrates make me very sick, but unlike someone with Celiac who may still crave gluten-containing foods, I don't even like high-carb foods. This makes self-management of the condition very easy, because my food preferences fall into the ratio of protein:fat:carb that I am supposed to have!
Then there's the aromatic sister of taste... in the nose. A bad concussion robbed me of my sense of smell a few years ago, which really diminished my enjoyment of foods. I can still taste the big four (SSSB) and I'm not quite convinced if umami counts, but it's just not the same without the olfactory. Anosmia sucks.
For me, it's more about texture than taste
Same here :D I'm a texture girly lol.
Same, it’s what I don’t eat most vegetables. The crunch factor makes my skin crawl, that and the overall bitter taste of them too. I prefer sweets.
This comment section makes me feel validated! 😭 I’m extremely picky, even though I’m trying to eat more variety… I can only eat veggies puréed… 🥲
@@CrimsonneArt I'm not a fan of puddings, slimy & gelatinous textures.
Super funny both times I was pregant I craved foods I never liked before. Most recently, I craved shrimp and fish(hated it since I was a kid) and now I like it. Oh hormones!
The savory flavor called umami was discovered from tasting seaweed, and not meat. Meat and cheese do have umami, but so do mushrooms, miso, edemame, nutritional yeast, kimchi, and tomato products. I don't miss animal products since I eat a lot of plant based umami.
I just got Covid for the first time last week and I’m upset to find that anything vinegar smells like rubbing alcohol. I noticed it when I put habanero hot sauce on my eggs and could hardly taste any spice but mostly tasted rubbing alcohol. After I was disappointed with the only meal I forced myself to eat I cleaned the kitchen. We use distilled white vinegar for our kitchen surfaces and that’s when I figured it out. I thought I grabbed the wrong spray bottle at first. It’s disappointing because vinegar is one of my favorite flavors, such as pickles or salt and vinegar chips or sweet and sour soup, sauerkraut etc.
Hopefully it will return to normal. I couldn’t stand coffee after I had covid and lost my taste and smell, but Ina few months it was ok again. There are also smell training things you can do to help.
What about those who are affected by texture? I've always wondered about that. And yes I am one of those weirdos 😝
I'm one of those weirdos, texture alone can make me averse to something, onions in particular
There are only a couple of textures I can't stand. Cottage cheese, it reminds me of milk gone bad.
But the big one; most dried fruits - raisins, dates, figs, apricots; and jelly beans and gummy worms fall into the same category. (Dried strawberries are good, though)
Then again... I LOVE okra! Bring it on!!!
Would you guys consider making a video about how our sense of smell affects our sense of taste? I feel like I have a very sensitive nose and that prevents me from liking a bunch of things other people like, because I think they smell bad. For exemple: I can't stand the smell of coffee, alcoholic beverages, onions, beef...
I second this motion as someone with anosmia lol. I love bitter things; black coffee, bittermelon, alcohol, grapefruit... those are some of my favourite things. Beef and onions come off as mildly sweet and savoury to me, and things that are normally considered sweet are almost entirely unpalatable to me. White and milk chocolate, Swedish Fish, grocery store cakes and pastries... those are all so sweet to me to the point to noxiousness. Intolerable. I'm always very happy when I find a sweet tooth friend or acquaintance because then I have someone to pass everything off onto 😭😭
My child has to smell foods before they try it. If it smells "bad", it is a no go.
@christalm.3231 yeah, I'm kinda like that
5:27 - why did you say “African Americans” when the graph is about the world? Just say black people, AA is a ridiculous term anyway
Grateful Vietnamese dairy lover here!! So glad I'm not lactose intolerant lol
Never in my life have I thought that cabbage has a "flavor". It's the most bland vegetable out there, made up mostly of water.
It tastes gross. Worse after it has been turned into sauerkraut.
I wish I could elaborate more elegantly, but gross is the best I have.
Even things cooked in the same dish turn gross. Love corned beef, so long as it is cooked separate from the infiltrating cabbage.
I don't like mango, because my brain misinterpretes the flavor as black pepper.
I suspect this is similar to the cilantro soap flavor effect.
I don't like mango either. I taste two distinct flavors in my mouth at the same time. I can taste the sweet for a split second and some weird chemical taste that tastes horrible overpowers the sweet. I'm the only person I know that tastes this. I want to like mangos because it's in a lot of things especially combined with peach which is my favorite but I just can't 😢
Wow, I love chocolate and I'm a alcoholic. This info tracks, lol!
Thanks for useful and valuable video as always ❤❤❤
Spent the first 30 years of my life LOVING sushi and raw fish. Got pregnant & the hormone changes made even the smell of fish absolutely repulsive. Fast forward a year & I got pregnant again. The raw fish aversion completely went away the second i hit 6 weeks pregnant. Which, honestly, was a relief because not being able to eat & enjoy sushi was really depressing to me.
Feel so bad for the people who have the soapy cilantro gene. Cause to me, cilantro is like "savory mint". I love it so much.
i genetically hate mayo
Its probably the eggy taste and the texture
I can't deal with mayo... The smell and sight of it makes me dry heave. If it's in a jar and just sitting there at the store it's fine, but finding it smeared all over something I ordered without it basically ruins the day for me. I've never actually tasted it, my bodies natural defense system will never allow it... 🤢🤮
I knew Black people were lactose intolerant, but I didn’t know about the Asian population. It now makes sense why you don’t see a lot of cheese in Asian cuisine.
Cows are native to Europe so most of the rest of the world didn’t have them for a long time
Korean food has a LOT of cheese
@@LauranCHBCheese is actually a relatively recent addition to Korean cuisine - it was introduced by American GI’s during the Korean War in the 50’s (along with spam, hot dogs, and chocolate which also became super popular)
It depends. I see cheese tteokboki in tons of Korean blogs.
I guess I’m weird because I’m a mix and match of these. With cilantro it depends on how much is in the food, if there’s too much I don’t like it because it tastes earthy to me. The same with a lot of spices such as rosemary, cardamom, thyme, lavender, etc. The only one of the green vegetables listed I don’t like is brussels sprouts, I find them very bitter. I don’t like coffee or dark chocolate because they are very bitter. I love sweets but I hate the taste of alcohol. Here’s a weird one now, I don’t like cinnamon or nutmeg in savory dishes because to me they have a slightly sweet taste to them.
The lactose observation is funny because i feel like south koreans put cheese on many dishes!
I'm one of those genetic mutants who thinks cilantro tastes like soap. I thought I could tolerate it. But then, I tried a relative of cilantro -- laska leaf.
I’m a supertaster myself, and words cannot express how absolutely horrific grapefruit is- just smelling it means I taste it, and it just won’t go away. I can tolerate pink lemonade to an extent, but that’s about it. I also hate onions except in powdered form, or deep-fried to hell.
It sucks, because a lot of places LOVE to dump or hide onions in all sorts of dishes in all kinds of cuisine ;-;
Same! I didn't even know supertaster was a thing until now but it explains a lot. And yeah, what is up with hiding the onions in things!? So annoying.
Good video as always
I LOVE the taste of brassica vegetables, but I HATE anything else that tastes bitter! That is why I can't stand alcohol and black coffee. Also, cilantro tastes like soap. I'm just glad I don't have any food allergies and that I have a high spice tolerance.
Lactose intolerance is not an allergy!
Right, allergic is wrong.
correct, you just lack the adult lactase production mutation.
I'm a mutant, happily sipping my cow juice
The "stink" component of cilantro is a group of chemicals called aldehydes. Aldehydes are present in soap; but they are also present in rotting organic matter. If you're familiar with stink bugs, aldehydes are also the source of stink bug odor. The ability to detect aldehydes strikes me as a survival advantage, so I'm perfectly happy to hate cilantro.
Diagnosed with depression and I've always been able to taste the differences between sweet, bitter and sour.
Eh. She said reduced taste. Not totally absent.
I read in a book once that your taste buds change every 7 years, and I find that to be genuinely true for me. From age 7 to 14 to 21 to 28 to 35 totally different evolving appetites
where's the funny guy? this is like a generic watchmojo video without him
Sundays I believe.
@@imustbecrazy5626 thanks pal
It's a fine video with this lady.
i like how you guys ask where the dude is despite KNOWING he only does the weekends. how haven’t y’all caught on by now? it’s sad
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I will try almost anything once with an open mind. Because of this I like a lot of diverse food that most people don’t like
2:07 Idris Elba is the voice of Knuckles for the Sonic films, Knuckles was the nickname I used to call my younger brother.
We had two Sega Genesis games, one of which was Sonic & Knuckles.
Sugar gives you free energy so it's simple why genetically we would strive for that taste. At a cost of fat, but in nature there were no artificial sugars.
Likely PTC issue here. I can't stand the taste of cauliflower and greens of any kind, nor things like coffee (tho I adore the aroma of the latter). Fresh/canned corn, too. Even being in the same room while they're being cooked makes me feel nauseated; attempting to eat them has always triggered my gag reflex.
I have found, however, that I can eat greens (e.g. a couple of large leaves of kale blended into a fruit smoothie) as long as I cannot actually *taste* them, so they do not cause any digestive issues for me.
I love sweets, but I don't like most alcohol because they taste bitter or sour to me. I know the study states that people with a sweet tooth are more inclined to become alcoholics because of the addiction, but the case isn't true for me and one of my closest friends who also loves sweets. We hate wine and beer because they're NOT sweet. But I suppose if all alcohol is sweet, we would fall into the trap of alcoholism more easily. If I have to drink with friends or by myself on a special occasion, I always pick cocktails (mixed or canned) or ice wine (sweet Canadian wine) or other dessert wines. Despite that fact, I am able to eat and enjoy vegetables anyway.
You know funnily enough broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, Brussel sprouts and kale all come from the same plant they have just been cultivated differently.
I must be an exception to the rule about if you like sweets, then you are probably an alcoholic. I love sweets [even though i don't make a regular habit of them, but every once in awhile as a treat] but i absolutely can't stand alcohol. I don't drink alcohol of ANY kind, so i have to argue with the fact you presented. The taste of beer and alcohol repels me [and the smell of coffee also repels me] so whatever scientists came up with that 'fact' is mistaken about the connection.
Relation between adrenaline urge and spicy foods makes sense. I'm a living example.
In decent health, I prefer savoury food. But when my chronic pain is out of control, I want sweets. If I haven't noticed sooner, one look at my shopping cart is a warning to call my doctor.
What kind of pain do you suffer from?
@@joeybaseball7352 RA, OA, and back spasms.
Fun thing about lactose intolerance: it seems to be partly epigenetic. One big exception to East Asians having LI is Mongols, whose traditional diet is like half milk based. The idea is that populations where dairy was common for a long time, like Europe and India, just develop a tolerance for it, and it's not purely genetic.
Fermented milk products have less lactose so all dairy cultures didn't need to develop the mutation to retain the childhood ability to break it.
8:28 I see Heisenberg's baby blue is still a hell-uv-a-drug...
Could've ended that Spiderman joke with a Hostess Fruit Pie joke, for shame.
Cilantro tastes metallic to me. Obviously, I don't care for it but it feels I am alone in this perception experience.
I love cilantro and funny enough, celery is what tastes soapy to me. I love spicy food, because, Mexican. That’s the one stereotype that’s actually kind of true.
I can defiantly attest to experiencing food poisoning affecting whether you interpret something as good or bad tasting. I got food poisoning from sour milk and moldy white bread as a kid. I haven't been able to have either ever since. All cow's milk tastes warm and sour to me, and all store bought white bread tastes stale. It's disgusting.
The lactose intolerance thing has always confused me because Japan has so much goddamn dairy, only in the past few years have they started offering alternative milks beyond soy
Hell yes, the female narrator. I can be entertained by the video, and then I can be further entertained by the comments of the incels freaking out.
That's right!
Gotta be an incel if you prefer the better narrator, sounds legit
@@Caesaro Found one.
@@christophejergales7852 Great logic! Oh wait, i’m engaged. Guess you’re wrong and your basis is completely stupid
@@Caesaro Keep digging that hole you are already in.
I don't have Celiac's but I still have a sensitivty to gluten products, I'm not sure why but would love some insight on that. :D
At the height of my depression I lost the majority of my taste and enjoyment of food. Everything tasted like over mixed boxed mashed potatoes. Bland, tasteless, thick sticky glue like consistency.
This video helped a lot. I'm late 40,s, and when I was younger, I thought of Chinese food ( OK, for the hardcore food geeks, American Chinese food) A special treat. Over the last decade or so, I found it less and less appealing. I kept wondering if it was just me, or does it all suck now. I did have a Pu Pu platter on Christmas eve, and It was OK, but not bursting with different flavors and textures as it seemed to years ago. I'll chalk it up to aging tastebuds, and maybe a decline in ingredient quality.
Yeah, you are probably right. I just turned 57 and my enjoyment of any fried/greasy foods has steadily decreased with each year I have aged
The most surprising for me was how high the percentage of non-tasters is. How sad for them. Now I know why I see so many people douse their food in salt, despite those foods being plenty salty enough.
4:40 There is an awesome silent film called Intolerance (1916), that is one of my favorite films!
i am literally only african and native american but I can take all the lactose so that is interesting. Although I believe that is true of everyone in my family so I guess we got lucky? lol
2:53 I am surprised that twins are not on more films, tv series, out in public, etc.
I didn’t expect the super/non taster proportions to be so high.
Guess I've got the PTC Gene, because bitter is hyper emphasized to the point that sliced onion on a burger is going to overpower the entire thing. I love savory, sweet, and sour above all else though.
I can taste PTC, but I like bitter flavors and prefer bitterness to balance out sweet flavors. I usually drink coffee black, and if I put anything in it, it’s just cream. I also really love cilantro because it tastes fresh, and I’ll snack on it sometimes. I like licorice but some brands are more overpowering than others. I had one from a health food store that was barely sweetened and it was way too much.
As a child, cilantro tasted exactly like soap - and I mean legit soap. As an adult - I no longer sense that and love cilantro.
This is a fantastic topic to cover.
I think I’m a non taster lol, I like spicy, bitter, sour, anything strong. Because I simply just don’t taste them much
Ashkenazi. They tested Ashkenazi! This genetic stuff is fascinating. Now I know why, at 60, that I'm the pickiest eater on Earth. The only veg I'll touch is peas (and corn.) My late husband, the only veg he wouldn't touch was peas. And in untero too? Man, my poor mouth never stood a chance. No wonder I'm a senior that eats like a junior. Oh well. I'll be dead from stress way before my diet catches up to me. Cheers, everybody!
Interesting how there was no mention of how smell affects taste.
In the early seventies in high-school biology we dropped that liquid on our tongue that is bitter to only some people. I wish I remembered if I tasted it or not. I probably didn't because I don't remember tasting bitter. I also remember how much more awesome chocolate 🍫 tasted when I was in the midst of PMS than after it was over. That and other foods like carbs and salt tasted awesome too!
cilantro taste like how pine-sol smells.
Where is the original narrator?
Your mom's, he called in sick
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@DaWN😅ve-bj3pq
I really liked this video! It was so interesting!!
A lot of the time, when you were young and were made to eat a certain food against your will, you will grow to hate it in your adult life. The taste the flavor and feel the texture of green bean or okra in my mouth just by looking at them and makes me want to throw up.
Reminds me of a story I heard once about Little Pig Boy.
i have always loved fresh veggies but hated most cooked ones. Until recently sugarsnap peas were a favorite snack of mine. Then i bit into a pod where the outside was fresh and crisp but inside was rotten.. I cant stand the thought of them now.
Similarly my sister for YEARS would get nauseous even smelling garlic after she ordered a dish at a restaurant and it was swimming in so much garlic it burned her mouth. She sent it back asking for less garlic and instead they ADDED MORE.
I do wonder with how simple my tastes are if i am a non taster or if it is related to having a bad sense of smell. I know smell plays a huge part in taste and mine was damaged many years ago.
On "aging" taste buds, I don't think people account for the fact that current body fat % has a HUGE impact on your cravings and taste? The best example of this is the common "member berry" of "middle school pizza" and how good it was. Like many foods, people claim they've tried it as adults and it's "just not the same." Well, what was your BF% in middle school? For a lot of us, that's well under 10%. How many of us regularly see that number again as adults?
OMG THE GIRL NARRATOR I THOUGHT SHE'D BEEN CHASED OFF FOREVER THANK GOODNESS 😭😭😭 Love the OG ofc but this woman is miles better than the other ones
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Don’t forget about texture!
My dad can’t stand vegetables, especially broccoli. He always quotes H.W. Bush about his dislike of the vegetable.
Cilantro: I simply do not like it that much. I have never, ever thought it tasted like soap, I just don't like it. I do get tired of people assuming that I think it tastes like soap. It doesn't. It's perfectly possible not to like cilantro w/out thinking it tastes like soap.
I love both sweets and Savory food equally.
Sauerkraut did that to me. I used to live in a group home as a teenager and they were going to have Reuben sandwiches for dinner. I told them I was allergic to sauerkraut so I couldn't eat it. I had a peanut butter sandwich instead.
good video
Cilantro is soapy tasting to me...ironically when I was little, I liked the taste of soap...lol...my mom tried the "wash your mouth out with soap" for swearing threat. She put a bar in my mouth ( forgot the brand) and I said "yum!" and she chuckled and never bothered again...her theory about why I liked the taste was some soaps were made using beef tallow...
A+ video!
Very helpful video for understanding the phenomena!
I can't eat wasabi (or other similar foods, like horseradish and certain mustards). To me, it tastes like some chemical cleaner. This is annoying because I live in Japan and wasabi finds a way to worm its way into many foods and occasions because even the smallest amount destroys a dish for me.
I’m the same way and I’ve never met or heard of anyone who feels the same. I can’t stand horseradish, radish, whole mustard or wasabi etc. They all taste the same to me: like fermenting, super bitter garbage. It’s weird because I’m generally very unpicky and like just about everything except this group of foods. Glad to know I’m not the only one out there with this oddity.
8:03 Reminds me of the film The Hudsucker Proxy (1994).
Im not entirely sure why, but i always had a problem with combinations of food rather than individual ingredients (wirh some exceptions like cottage cheese, ricotta cheese, and liver). I just liked eating things individually for a long time and still do but I've opened up to that and new foods with occasional experimentation. In fact i eat more new foods now as an adult than when i was constantly pressured or forced by adullts as a kid and teen!..and then my mom who's in her 50s still can't stand to eat anything green while my tongue finally started being able to taste beer.
This is typically a symptom of autism.
could you guys make a video explaining what happened to make KitKat a Hershey product in america and a nestle product in Canada ?
I'm a super taster and while I've trained myself to eat cilantro if necessary, no amount of trying has made me tolerate capsaicin. If it's even a mild amount I can't taste the food at all after the first bite, it's just heat and sweat and no flavour. It's awful.
Cilantro tastes fine to me, but parsley tastes a bit like the way gasoline smells
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my bitter taste buds must be crazy sensitive because i cant drink anything that has even a small amount of coffee or alcohol without wanting to throw up. i love super spicy food but i cant eat it if it has the actual pepper because they also taste like poison to me edit: i just got to the end. i think im a supertaster lol...
7:40 Wow, that totally explains why I gagged on any green vegetables as a kid, but mine have gobbled them up since they were babies. They inherited a different gene from their mom!
I’m a supertaster but I love all brassicas, strong flavors, and bitter things - go figure!
So PTC is the reason I absolutely can't stand brussel sprouts? I wish my parents were still around, so I could disclaim a lot of arguments around the dinner table in my early years.
i'm a super taster, and i'm good with that.
i don't eat spicy foods, or use too much seasoning of any kind, really, and even the smell of coffee makes me sick to my stomach, but i feel blessed to be able to experience the true taste of foods in their natural state. ☺️