Coriandrum Sativum💚
Known as Cilantro: Yum or Yuck!
Is it Preference or Genetic?
- A tasty herb to some people, yum! 😋 😄
- A pleasing combination of flavors reminiscent of parsley and citrus.
🌿🍊
- Some people find tasting👅cilantro to be revolting, yuck!😒
- Genetic issues result in the plant to taste like soap....🧼
- These kinds of people have a variation in a group of
👃olfactory-receptor genes
that creates strongly soapy-flavored aldehydes in cilantro leaves.
- This genetic quirk is usually only found in a small %🤦♀️ of the
population.
- Places where cilantro is popular, such as Central America and India,
have fewer people with these genes.🧬
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