BBC Science Focus Magazine

DO YOUR GENES INFLUENCE YOUR TASTE IN FOOD?

Have you no taste? It's an interesting, if rude, question that encompasses a broad church of possible topics. Are you about to be criticised for your taste in art? Books? Clothes? And of course, let's not forget food.

Many food tastes are acquired. Take the different types of starchy carbohydrates, which make up over half our global calorie consumption. My wife, who is of white European ancestry, loves bread. I'm of Chinese ancestry, and can take or leave it. Rice and noodles, however, I can eat every day.

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