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Letters: ‘I’d Stop Hating Beets If They’d Stop Tasting Like Dirt’

Readers discuss what causes food aversions—and what might cure them.
Source: Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters

How to Stop Hating Your Least Favorite Food

“As far as I can remember,” , “I’ve never liked cucumbers, mostly because they taste bad.” After talking with a handful of experts in her quest to figure out why humans have aversions to certain foods in the first place, Mull learned that

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