Getting an earful from mum everyday for not eating green vegetables is a routine. Because most of us dont like eating vegetables and we keep thinking of excuses to escape the wrath of moms over veggies, of course.
As per the experts from the University of Kentucky School of Medicine, every person inherits two copies of a taste gene called TAS2R38 which encodes a protein that allows us to taste bitterness. Those who inherit two copies of a variant of this gene called AVI are not sensitive to bitter tastes while those who inherit one copy of AVI and another called PAV perceive bitter tastes.
So that [bitter] vegetable is disliked, and because people generalize, soon all vegetables are disliked, Duffy said. If you ask people, Do you like vegetables? They dont usually say, Oh yeah, I dont like this, but I like these others. People tend to either like vegetables or not, she added.
So, the next time your mother scolds you for not eating greenvegetables, you could always blame it on genes or on your forefathers! * wink *
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