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CORIANDER | REAL SCIENCE

Hate coriander because it tastes like soap? Always hearing that you're just fussy and coriander is always great in a curry? Turns out there's a very good reason that to you it tastes rank!

In Real Science Zara Gladman explains why genetics has a huge role to play in how different food tastes to different people. For a while it was thought your thoughts on coriander were depending on how much you'd had it as a child but turns out there's more to it. A team of scientists in the USA looked at genetic codes in a study of thousands and the results were interesting...

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