Bad Taste - Why Most People Hate Bitter Food?
If you can’t stand the taste of gin and tonic, or curl your tongue when you eat eggplant, that’s your evolutionary conditioning trying to save you from being poisoned. The bitterness in tonic water and certain vegetables alerts your body to a potential toxin, and high levels lead to a feeling of nausea.
Since most plant-based poisons taste bitter, it appears that somewhere in the higher branches of our evolutionary tree, our ancestors developed an in-built defence mechanism to repel toxins t more here http://logicalscience.com/2018/02/bad-taste-why-most-people-hate-bitter-food/
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