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Monday, February 23, 2009

Where does picky eating come from? And how can people have different impressions of the same meal?

It could be, perhaps, because we fall into different "tasting" categories. There are three:

• non-taster
• average taster
• super-taster

About 50 per cent of us are average tasters. The rest are divided among non-tasters and super-tasters.

Scientists categorize you by putting a piece of paper laced with 6-n-propylthiouracil (also known as PROP) on your tongue. PROP has no flavour for non-tasters, is somewhat bitter to the average taster, and completely repugnant to super-tasters.

Broccoli
As the theory has it, being able to perceive bitterness was an evolutionary advantage that would let people figure out which plants were poisonous. Now, though, it mostly makes certain foods, like broccoli, repugnant to some people.



HAHA EAT THAT
THATS WHY I DONT EAT GREEN VEGE BEC!

*nyehnyeh*

i should stop blogging so often
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