Awful, awful trash. If I see it in a recipe I disregard it entirely because clearly the author has defective taste buds and cannot be trusted. Don't hate me for being right.

  • lvysaur [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It's actually cultural, they did a study on it. People DO have genes that make it taste like soap vs. non-soap.

    But when they looked ethnically, Asians/whites/blacks all had about 15% of the population hate it

    Indians/Arabs/Latinos all had about 3% of the population hate it

    So basically it does taste soapy to some, but also you perceive that tastes as normal if you grow up with it

      • lvysaur [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        No. All races have the same incidence of the gene.

        otherwise it doesn't make any sense that Latinos would have magically evolved the cilantro gene over the last 400 years just so they could eat a spice.

        IIRC the Asian was mainly NE Asian, so no. I would expect Thai and such people to also tolerate it well due to acclimatization