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If you make a face like a kid swallowing cough syrup at the mere suggestion of Brussels sprouts, you might have the DNA of a “super taster,” a genotype that makes the bitter chemicals in these foods taste practically intolerable, according to recent research to be presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2019 this weekend in Philadelphia. Everyone inherits two copies of a taste gene called TAS2R38. The particular variants you’re born with determine how sensitive or not you are to bitter tastes from certain chemicals such as glucosinolates, commonly found in cruciferous vegetables like Brussels sprouts, cabbage,...

All my life I’ve had a thing for the underdog. Be it the passed over toy as a little girl or the loser boyfriend as a teenager, I guess I took the ugly duckling fairy tale to heart. Now in my adulthood, I have taken the poor, rejected, locally grown vegetables under my wing—the underutilized, the newly-trendy, the formerly beloved fallen out of modern favor, or the just plain weird. In the case of Brussels sprouts, they are a vegetable all too often cooked very wrong and, hence, tend to carry a bad rap. Who wouldn’t hate Brussels sprouts if...

In last week’s thread, we discovered that some of our Freeper Friends don’t like lima beans, and joked about doing a thread on ‘despised foods’. Instead, let’s just call it ‘less universally enjoyed’ foods; and here’s my Lima Bean Casserole recipe. I can’t recall where I got it, and the original recipe called for frozen limas; but I learned that canned ones work a lot better in this recipe. Cheesy Lima Bean Casserole 2 pks. frozen lima beans, cooked (20 oz.) Or equivalent canned 1 C. each cottage cheese and sour cream ½ C. finely diced sweet onion 2 cloves...

A man from Ayrshire had to be hospitalised after eating too many Brussels sprouts last Christmas, it has emerged. The traditional Christmas vegetable contain lots of vitamin K which promotes blood clotting. However, this counteracted the effect of anticoagulants the man was taking because he had a mechanical heart. Doctors at the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank eventually realised too many sprouts were to blame.

Sorry if I got too worked up in that last thread. I just get so angry when I think about a non-American in the Oval Office. I don't want a military coup. I never said I did. I want my COUNTRY BACK!

Brussels sprouts and cabbage could be the latest weapons in the battle against breast cancer, according to new research.Scientists have discovered a chemical in the green vegetables that appears to kill off breast cancer cells when combined with chemotherapy drugs. Previous studies have already suggested a link between eating such vegetables and prevention against cancer. But this is one of the first studies examining how the vegetables can play a role in treating the disease. For the latest research, British scientists studied the effects of the naturally-occuring compound indole-3-carbinol (I3C) on tumour cells in the laboratory. I3C is found in...