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[-] Stern@lemmy.world 122 points 7 months ago

I got the "cilantro tastes like soap" gene personally. Would much rather have gotten the, "Always remember where I left my car keys" gene, or maybe the, "Come up with witty retorts on the spot instead of two hours later in the shower" one.

[-] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 26 points 7 months ago

I love cilantro, but I got the celery tastes bitter and spicy gene. So many people tell me it's tasteless but it has a strong, terrible taste to me.

[-] rudyharrelson@kbin.social 8 points 7 months ago

Celery man. Everyone tells me it has no taste, but to me it tastes like an entire lawn's worth of grass clippings compressed into a stick. Extremely pungent.

Same with cucumbers. They taste awfully strong and bitter to me.

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Look up the "TAS2R bitter taste receptor gene family". It's a fun little group of genes that control how well bitterness is detected.

I am a moderate bitter taster. So I do not like celery (mildly unpleasant flavor) and prefer cucumbers that contain the recessive bi gene that stops the production of cucubitacin in the plant. The ones that contain the bt gene, the skin gets too bitter for me. This gene mostly stops the cucubitacin production in the fruit but not the plant.

[-] Juice@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah I really don't like celery. Cucumbers are pretty good if they're peeled, but yeah they have a very strong taste to me, and the peel is very bitter

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Your celery description seems apt to me, but for me it's much less pungent. It's actually super mild for me, so I don't mind it. I actually quite like celery.

[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Just to signal boost the other guy that sounds a lot like a food allergy friend

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Any time someone tells you something is "tasteless" you should feel free to discard all of their food opinions or give them a covid test

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think I have half of that gene (2/3, cilantro is nice), fresh celery tastes salty and spicy. If it's old, then it tastes like water.

[-] Juice@midwest.social 10 points 7 months ago

Cilantro tasted like soap to me until my wife described it as lemony, and it suddenly tasted different and now I like cilantro. Senses are weird

[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Cognitive Modulation of Olfactory Processing: Neuron

We showed how cognitive, semantic information modulates olfactory representations in the brain by providing a visual word descriptor, “cheddar cheese” or “body odor,” during the delivery of a test odor (isovaleric acid with cheddar cheese flavor) and also during the delivery of clean air. Clean air labeled “air” was used as a control. Subjects rated the affective value of the test odor as significantly more unpleasant when labeled “body odor” than when labeled “cheddar cheese.” In an event-related fMRI design, we showed that the rostral anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)/medial orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) was significantly more activated by the test stimulus and by clean air when labeled “cheddar cheese” than when labeled “body odor,” and the activations were correlated with the pleasantness ratings. This cognitive modulation was also found for the test odor (but not for the clean air) in the amygdala bilaterally.

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

I think it's great how a screenshot of comment about a tiktok video is leading to some pretty great discussion.

[-] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago

If I eat cilantro by itself and focus on the idea of it tasting like soap, I can kinds taste it. It still tastes good to me, just with a hint of soapiness. It's not enough to ruin it for me, and I have to be looking for it.

[-] tja@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

I believe that's all on the same gene

[-] pigup@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I love cilantro but one time I tasted the soap flavor. I had done a stir fry with cilantro and left the spoon in the still hot pot and there had been some cilantro stuck to the bottom of the spoon that sat there and cooked for as long as it took for the big pot to cool down. Then when I was doing dishes I picked up the spoon and I saw big bunch of cilantro so I ate it and it was horribly nasty and tasted like straight up hand soap. I thought for sure that some soap fell or splashed onto it but no it was just the cilantro. Never happened again either.