Here's the science behind why some people hate eating cilantro, which is also known as coriander.
Cilantro is one divisive herb: People either love it or hate it. Julia Child disavowed the stuff, claiming it had a soapy taste in 1955 — and the comparison stuck. Between 3% and 21% of people, depending on their location in the world, dislike cilantro for its soapiness. But how can people have such vastly different sensations from the same herb?It's no surprise that people have different reactions to the same food, but usually, they're responding to the same taste experience.
The study was done by 23andMe. The consumer DNA testing company looked at a"crude measure of sensory phenotype but over a very large population," Hayes explained.A 23andMe team surveyed thousands of respondents about their cilantro preference and identified a single nucleotide polymorphism associated with cilantro aversion. The SNP lies in a cluster of genes that code for olfactory receptors, researchers at the company reported in the journal Flavour in 2012.
"People aren't quite sure exactly which of the many volatile aromatics cause the off-note, the soapy note [in cilantro]," Charles Spence, a professor of experimental psychology and gastrophysicist at the University of Oxford told Live Science. But the culprit seems to be some of these cilantro-specific aldehydes, organic compounds that can pack a pungent odor.
Interestingly, there are records of people complaining about cilantro way back in the 1500s and 1600s, Spence said. But"how they describe it has completely changed." Before the off-taste was deemed as soapy, cilantro haters said the herb smelled like bedbugs, he said.
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