Coriander is one of the most controversial ingredients, and some people love its taste and can eat it every day, even as a dish.
Some people can smell its "smell" from a long distance, a bit like soap, but also a bit like the smelly metal smell of insects, and coriander for a long time, but also want to vomit, lest avoid it.
According to statistics, among the global population, East Asia has the highest proportion of people who hate coriander, as high as 21%, Europeans and Africans account for 17% and 14% respectively, and Middle Easterners have the least, only 3%.
This also includes a small percentage of people who are allergic to coriander and have symptoms similar to those with other food allergies.
Coriander, also known as coriander, is a traditional Chinese medicine that has appetizing, depressive, pain-relieving and detoxifying effects, and has a strong smell.
It is also this special smell that leads to the Latin name of coriander at the beginning, which means related to bed bugs.
In the past, coriander was one of the original ingredients of the Coca-Cola Company.
Coriander contains a variety of volatile substances, mannitol, nonane, decane, nonaldehyde and decanal and linalool, etc., the bad smell is mainly aldehyde substances.
Essentially, people who hate coriander are "super tasters."
Surveys have shown that among many people who hate coriander, there is a common genetic variant in the body, this gene is called "OR6A2", because of its presence, people are particularly sensitive to the aldehydes in coriander.
This genetic mutation has geographical characteristics and the prevalence rate varies from race to race. But this gene is not passed down from generation to generation and is random.
That is to say, your parents do not like to eat coriander, does not mean that you hate, the dislike of coriander, the genetic rate is very low. #三农 #