Extra Special Bitter. Tremendous.
Posted on 08/02/2019 1:53:01 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Introducing plant-based foods to a diet is a common-sense approach to healthy eating, but many people don't like the taste of vegetables, bitter greens, in particular.
But give that broccoli a chance.
Doing so won't just change your mind; it will actually change the taste of those foods, according to a new study.
What sounds at first like a culinary parlor trick is actually a scientific matter based on specific proteins found in saliva. These proteins affect the sense of taste, and diet composition, at least in part, determines those proteins.
Saliva is a complex fluid containing around 1,000 specific proteins. Identifying all the players is a work in progress, but everything we eat is dissolved in saliva before it interacts with taste receptor cells and all these proteins are candidates for influencing stimuli before food is tasted.
"What you eat creates the signature in your salivary proteome, and those proteins modulate your sense of taste," says Ann-Marie Torregrossa, an assistant professor.
How much repeated exposure? Give me a number.
"Our data doesn't provide a number, such as 12 servings of broccoli, however, for people who avoid these foods because of their bitterness, but would like them in their diet, they should know their taste will eventually change."
"Trying to convince someone that a salad tastes great isn't going to work because to that person it doesn't taste great. Understanding with taste that we're dealing with something that's moveable is significant."
"Once these proteins are on board the bitter tastes like water. It's gone."
"The variation around sweets is very small," she says. "Nearly everyone likes a cupcake, but the variation around liking broccoli is enormous.
"This research helps explain why that variation with bitter food exists and how we can get more people to eat broccoli instead of cupcakes."
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Your body will like it after trying it enough.
Cilantro.
Broccoli tastes great and smells great to me, savory, almost like meat. I’ve never tasted the bitterness.
Personally, I like Spinach and Broccoli (especially if the latter is in cheese sauce).
what kind of headline is this? I don’t eat what I don’t like, so I guess it us true...
Extra Special Bitter. Tremendous.
“Cilantro” sucks. ;<)
Awful stuff. Particularly, if you have the “cilantro tastes like soap” gene.
I’ve always loved spinach even when I was a little kid. It’s my favorite vegetable of all.
I prefer Brussels Sprouts, real nice if you cook them along with your steak.
The only reason I eat broccoli is because my husband likes it. It really does not matter how much I eat it, it still tastes bad. At least he shares my distaste of Brussels sprouts, which are far worse.
To each his own.
There are certain people that have taste receptors that taste broccoli as very bitter.
They won’t like it no matter what.
I must have that gene...cilantro has a very peculiar flavor and even makes me ill if I eat too much of it.
Someone once told me that cilantro has a really fresh taste to her. She must not have that gene.
I always cook enough for breakfast too. Brussels Sprouts and jalapeno jack makes an awesome omelet.
I lack that particular receptor, love cilantro!
(But I bet at least a dozen chip in here about it tasting like soap...)
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZOT!
This says they will, when eating it enough times.
It seems bizarre.
I like tabbouleh, except the parsley of course, which tabbouleh really is....parsley salad.... too much parsley is just too much bitterness.....but all the other stuff..peppers, cukes, tomatoes onion, etc....yum..
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