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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I love cilantro, but I got the celery tastes bitter and spicy gene. So many people tell me it's tasteless but it has a strong, terrible taste to me.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bitter and spicy kinda sounds like an allergy my dude

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Celery tastes like that too me as well, but no allergy. I can eat it with no negative effects, other than the fact that I've had to taste celery.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's just that a lot of mild allergies sound just like that, no big obvious ill effects

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Celery man. Everyone tells me it has no taste, but to me it tastes like an entire lawn's worth of grass clippings compressed into a stick. Extremely pungent.

Same with cucumbers. They taste awfully strong and bitter to me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Look up the "TAS2R bitter taste receptor gene family". It's a fun little group of genes that control how well bitterness is detected.

I am a moderate bitter taster. So I do not like celery (mildly unpleasant flavor) and prefer cucumbers that contain the recessive bi gene that stops the production of cucubitacin in the plant. The ones that contain the bt gene, the skin gets too bitter for me. This gene mostly stops the cucubitacin production in the fruit but not the plant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah I really don't like celery. Cucumbers are pretty good if they're peeled, but yeah they have a very strong taste to me, and the peel is very bitter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Your celery description seems apt to me, but for me it's much less pungent. It's actually super mild for me, so I don't mind it. I actually quite like celery.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Just to signal boost the other guy that sounds a lot like a food allergy friend

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think I have half of that gene (2/3, cilantro is nice), fresh celery tastes salty and spicy. If it's old, then it tastes like water.