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There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can eat coriander; those who refuse to eat coriander, and even want to vomit when they smell it. According to survey data, about 15% of the world's people do not like the taste of coriander, and some people have set up a special world anti-coriander alliance, and there are even anti-coriander T-shirts sold on the website, and more interestingly, February 24 is actually "World Hate Coriander Day".
Sometimes I think about it, isn't it just a small dish, and it's not poisonous, as for being so disgusted? To this end, Cornell University in the United States has published a study, geneticist Nicholas Eriksson in 2012, a questionnaire survey of 14,000 people found that nearly 2,000 people think that coriander tastes "like soap", and this taste is obviously different from the taste of the public perception. The team used genome-wide association to analyze the 2,000 people and found that coriander may be genetically linked!
Those who do not like to eat coriander, after eating feel that there is a soapy taste, the body carries a special gene called "OR6A2", which has an important impact on the human body's sense of smell, taste function, while the aldehyde molecule is very sensitive, feel that coriander has a soapy taste of people mostly rely on it. Miraculously, scientists have also found the same aldehyde substances in soap as in coriander, and it is no wonder that when they eat coriander, they feel that in addition to the grassy and earthy taste, there is also a soap taste.
In addition, due to slight differences in this gene, some people smell coriander, which will be similar to metal or insects. The study also pointed out that the proportion of people who hate coriander is between 10 and 20%, of which East Asia has the highest proportion, close to 20%, and Europe and Africa have a lower proportion, only 17% and 20%, respectively. Some experts speculate that perhaps because East Asian countries often add coriander to their dishes, people are more frequently exposed to this ingredient, so there are naturally more people who hate it.
It seems that disgusting and resisting eating coriander is by no means a picky eating problem, nor is it a psychological problem, but a genetic trick, so don't force friends around you who don't like to eat coriander to eat coriander, which is definitely difficult for strong people.
(Reference source: Sohu, Xinhuanet client, hot headlines)