...Some lighter fare after a week of bad news and unreasonably full stomachs.
Uh oh.
I get a taco with a bunch of green stuff on it that I instantly recognize as Cilantro. Even if I pick it off, there is likely more that’s fallen inside and I know it will ruin what would otherwise be a tasty taco. I motion to the server and ask why my taco has cilantro when I specifically instructed cilantro not be used. The server, as usual, shrugs and wonders why cilantro is a “problem” to be avoided.
Why he/she didn’t ask that when I placed my very specific order remains a mystery although why cilantro is a problem is no longer mysterious.
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...some people find cilantro revolting, including, famously, the chef Julia Child. Of course some of this dislike may come down to simple preference, but for those cilantro-haters for whom the plant tastes like soap, the issue is genetic. These people have a variation in a group of olfactory-receptor genes that allows them to strongly perceive the soapy-flavored aldehydes in cilantro leaves.
Yup, my genes hate cilantro. And now I know that I’m NOT alone. I have also learned to check the ingredients of salsa and other products to ensure that the whole thing doesn’t end up going down the garbage disposal. I’ve learned the hard was that there’s no masking the soapy taste of cilantro even when combining it with other tasty ingredients.
East Asians and Europeans have the highest number of people with the aldehyde detecting gene, but in places where cilantro is popular, the gene is nearly absent.
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