Posted on 11/30/2019 5:21:38 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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, and broccoli.
People who inherit two copies of a variant called AVI aren’t sensitive to bitter tastes. Those born with one copy of AVI and one copy of another variant called PAV perceive the bitter tastes of these chemicals, but aren’t necessarily overwhelmed by them. However, people with two copies of PAV, often called “super tasters,” find the same foods exceptionally bitter.
Along with those cruciferous veggie offenders, other foods like coffee, dark chocolate, and beer may also trigger that way-too-bitter taste.
“We’re talking a ruin-your-day level of bitter when they tasted the test compound,” said study author Jennifer L. Smith, Ph.D., R.N., a postdoctoral fellow in cardiovascular science at the University of Kentucky School of Medicine in Lexington, in a press release from her upcoming presentation.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, that day-wrecking bitter perception prevents these super tasters from consuming their daily recommended vegetables.
When the researchers analyzed food-frequency questionnaires from 175 people (average age 52 and more than 70 percent female), they found that the respondents with the PAV genotype were more than two and a half times as likely to rank in the bottom half of participants on the number of vegetables eaten than those without the variant.
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Do you have a Sbarro’s near you. Another big, fat chain place, to be sure, but they do make pizza with broccoli on it, at least some of the time.
I like broccoli but I don’t like the taste of rabe, or rapini, a green vegetable similar to broccoli that sometimes appears in Italian cuisine. Nevertheless, if it’s on my plate, I’ll eat it because it’s full of good nutrients.
I can eat broccoli and Brussels sprouts, if there is enough butter to pack a bearing, to drown the bitter taste...
Total BS article. Name any food and someone won’t like it.
I like broccoli and brussel sprouts but can’t stand beer.
Bingo! Grew up hating celery, now I love it and there really is not any vegetable I do not like, just some I have not tried, like puntarelle.
My Mother was a very good vegetable cook. My Brother said it was because she used a lot of grease. I would love to be a ten year old kid again and feast off her great meals.
My favorite was what she called little white peas tho they were actually light green. Served with fried okra, a fried pork chop, a slice of tomato and cornbread tho it was what most people call corn pone.
Also sweet iced tea.
I think we hear this every holiday season. Feels very groundhog dayish.
Southern, right?
Lol!
Yes Mother was born in the Florida Panhandle just a few hundred yards South of the Alabama line. Her father owned land in both states.
Never heard of them. But it’s easy to get a veggie pizza at the local supermarket or you can sue them by international law. The U.N. sends their lawyer in the mail, along with an angry letter. It’s not a vegan pizza, though. I would never eat one of those.
Roasted brussell sprouts in butter sauce! Yum!!
I find that, as I’ve gotten older, I can eat all vegetables plain without needing any dressing.
Cauliflower, they’re all poison.
BTW, what purpose did cauliflower serve in jars of pickles?
I’ve never quite met a person who had to say those things if they were :)
Cannot eat walnuts, too bitter.
Brussels sprouts- tolerable
broccoli- very good.
Raw Cabbage- Good
Cooked Cabbage- not good.
Sauerkraut- One of the most god awful tasting things on the entire planet.
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