Jul. 12th, 2004

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What this means is that I am in the 25% of the population (of the world I assume) who are more sensitive to taste than others, basically because they have a higher density of taste buds. The population roughly divides into three groups: super tasters, normal, and poor tasters (or something similar); with the divide being approximately 25%, 50%, 25% respectively. To be honest though I suspect myself to be at the more sensitive end of the supertaster band.

I looked into this, well I finally got round to looking into this, after being informed a while ago that the reason I find most veg bitter, is because I can taste a chemical present in them which not everyone is sensitive to.

Anyway the upshot of this is I have a valid reason for not really liking vegetables. Considering that I find most veg bitter and some even unbearably so. To the extent that if I ever eat things like cauliflower or cabbage stalks, the bitter taste overrides all of the other flavours not only in that mouthful, but in everything I eat for the next few minutes! I was surprised to learn recently that mange tout are supposed to be sweet, I just can't imagine it, they really are very very bitter to me, to the extent that I just can't eat them. It also explains why I've never been a fan of overly salty foods, as again I can taste the salt very strongly. Having said that I'm definitely a fan of spicy food, and like things to be strongly flavoured, so maybe it's not all genetics.

Definitely interesting, though none of this explains my abject loathing of potato.

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