Bitter foods SHOULD taste terrible...here's why they don't
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If disliking bitter foods evolved to keep us alive, why do we LOVE some bitter foods?
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You cannot make a video with minutefood beer, and then not sell it in some store. We demand a beer named international phonetic alphabet! It does not have to be an IPA if you don't feel like brewing that type of beer...
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Hey Minute Food,
I was wondering if you could do an episode on when to put what in the fridge or not.
Some foods are "not supposed" to go in the fridge, but they last much much longer, while otherwise they'd go bad in a few days.
On the other hand, sometimes it might deteriorate taste. Though, sometimes you'd trade taste for longevity or vice versa.
Maybe it'd be interesting to do a deep dive on this. As it's not always clear. Oranges, eggs, home made cake or brownies? Beans?
Hope you take some inspiration from this for an upcoming vid.
International Phonetic Alphabet is my favorite beer!
I studied chemistry in college and think "iso-propyl alcohol" when I see IPA 😅
ah you beat me to it with this comment ! XD
India pale ale.. isopropyl alcohol.. and others IPA
This being the comment I could see from my feed combined with the weird title…was very curious what on earth it could be about
Don’t you mean /bi:r/?
Bitter things are often described as "acquired tastes", like beer, coffee or wine. To me, that means that you start naturally disliking it, that's an immediate logical response, then with a mix of curiosity and a bit of social pressure, you try them again and again and at some point the "unpleasantness" becomes interesting rather than just displeasing, the same way you might enjoy a horror movie with gore, or just sad fiction. It just contributes to life being complex and more enjoyable that way.
I think evolutionarily, bitter could be more "Proceed with caution: MAY be hazardous" rather than full stop "DANGER!" So, the "social pressure" might in part be seeing that your friends didn't get sick from it, so maybe it's okay for you to try a little more and see how you react. The acclimatization is your body remembering that it didn't cause much harm the last time.
Also, a lot of bitter substances are more harmful to children than adults, so the distaste for bitter reducing with age just makes sense.
Also, the brute force fact is that evolution in general doesn't 'care' (metaphorically speaking) so much about older individuals vs. children -- a "Logan's run" gene that would absolutely kill you at age 50 won't be especially selected against, because it won't kill you before you can have children to pass it to.
I think you don't get a taste for bitter by itself, but bitter combined with something desirable, like sugar, fat, or a drug (caffeine, alcohol, theobromine...). Chocolate has all three.
@@UrbanPanic A lot of healthy food is bitter or has bitter components. It’s very likely that we evolutionarily know that some bitter things can be good.
@@GogiRegion That's a backwards way at looking at this. You're tasting bitterness because there's poison in the food you're eating. some molecules are clearly harmful and your body is letting you know about them. That's regardless of whether there's some other benefit or pleasure in other molecules within the food. toxicity is still present and any molecules your body is warning you about are harmful and have been honed over millions of years of evolutionary defenses.
Ok, but if you did make an IPA called International Phonetic Alphabet, I would DEFINITELY buy it. This is exactly my type of humor
Just call it International Phonetic Alephabet with the “Ale” there to communicate it’s alcohol and avoid stepping on actual IPA’s toes, that’s it.
@@corrinflakes9659 This is excellent. I may steal this idea.
I absolutely hate any form of bitterness in food but my dad somehow really enjoys it and makes things bitter on purpose. Some people are just freaky
I like bitterness to a degree. People are just over addicted to sweet and not used to bitterness.
Not really a matter of freakiness. It can go both ways if you want to label it that way.
@@artery9407 Bitterness is usually associated with poisonous substances so our body has all the reasons to not like it
@@theholypopechodeii4367 I'm otherwise, i rarely eat sweet foods, and love bitter and sour food. The bitter the beer is, the better...
@@the1337fleet it can't really go both way actually, not liking bitter is just not freaky, liking it is.
What’s confused me is that i absolutely love dark chocolate’s more bitter taste while i absolutely cannot stand alcohol and some other bitter things
OTOH, I drink coffee black but can't stand cocoa without any milk or sugar to moderate its extreme bitterness.
I never liked beer either until I was 20. I was traveling with almost no cash (just at that moment), on a train and really hungry. The only thing I could buy was a beer, so I did. And fore some reason that tasted nice. And that was it, I suddenly liked it. Weird
It's probably a combination of the various compounds in chocolate appealing to you alongside the bitterness, but those same compounds are missing when it comes to alcoholic drinks. For my part, I absolutely could not stand bitter foods and drinks as a kid, so after watching this video I suspect I likely inherited genes that allowed me to taste bitterness WAY more strongly than my parents or brother. Over the decades my distaste for bitterness has mellowed (likely because my taste buds have also weakened and I can no longer taste bitterness as strongly); in my teens and early twenties I started drinking tea and enjoying dark chocolate (previously I would only eat milk chocolate), and only recently (in my early 40's!) did I start drinking coffee as well. I still can't stand alcoholic drinks though.
You don't just have one receptor for bitter foods. As they said bitterness is complex. So you are likely not very sensitive to the bitter compounds in chocolate but you are sensitive to other bitter compounds
Different bitter genes react to different chemicals. I know for me, PTC paper (the one mentioned in the video) is very bitter, however I don’t find alcohol bitter at all. Some people are the complete opposite.
I'm one of the zero tasters and I live with a super taster. "Is this bitter?" is a favourite game, haha. Since I started anti-depressants I can taste a bit more bitter than before, it's really fascinating side effect.
Damn. I was really hoping that you commissioned (or licensed) Minute Food branded beer and it is a sponsor of this video.
Maybe one day :)
I feel like it’s just a similar thing like with spiciness where the sensation makes the flavour more stimulating/exciting
Aversion to bitterness is strongest in children but most folks become less sensitive/averse as they get older. Perhaps adults don't need to rely so heavily on taste to discriminate good from bad plants
And the lethal dose of plant toxins is much higher when you weigh 150 pounds vs 40 pounds, not to mention different liver/kidney size.
Not every trait is adaptive: maybe some things just get broken as we age.
That said, it's conceivable that adults don't need a high aversion to bitterness because they have a higher tolerance for toxins, or enough life experience to avoid them.
@@TasteOfButterflies i thought most "adaptive" traits were just the ones where spending the energy to make it last wasn't worth it in the evolutionary progress
Like how teeth are essential so we have 2 sets but we don't continue growing them because that's extra energy and basically nobody pre-1950 would have a kid by the time they've worn out 2 sets.
I must be weird, I loved olives and blue cheese already as a small kid.
Also, when someone is still growing they're much more vulnerable to toxins. Like how birth defects can be caused by all sorts of things that are harmless to an adult, or have a mild effect at most. When the body is still growing, it's a lot more fragile to being thrown out of wack.
So correct me if I'm wrong but the bitterness added to beers was specifically because brewers wanted to balance out the sweetness of beer. They found the wort to be too sweet so they added bitter ingredients like mugwort to balance it out. Sometime later it was replaced with hops.
IPAs specifically are like that because hops acts as a preservative so it was added to allow it to survive the long journey by ship to or from India (don't remember which way), hence the name India Pale Ale.
In the age of sail, having beer would be much safer than having a drink of water. Both the alcohol and the hops are antibacterial, and the beer brewing process requires sterilizing the wort through boiling (otherwise the yeast would need to compete with spoilage bacteria). Water on the other hand was a mixed bag. If you get your water from a clean mountain stream you'd be fine, but ports are usually located in cities, where water supplies might be contaminated with human and livestock excreta. It only takes one sick sailor to infect the entire crew.
Hops are a preservative. It keeps bacteria from growing on beer, and made it able to be transported for longer
I have heard there was a controversy of which is cleaner: plastic cutting boards or wood cutting boards. Could be a fun video topic. I'm sure there is probably a lot of nuance to the discussion
P.S. my kids Sophie and Zoey LOVE your videos! So do I!
I am pretty sure there isn't
I’d be temoted to say a cheap cutting boards of any material will be less clean because cut marks give organic matter more opportunities to stick to the board.
Reminds me of getting ready to be taste testing judge. We trained by seeing when we could taste a taste and identify what it was (sweet, bitter, salt, sour, umami). I came out really high with the bitter test. proving me sencitive. The leader also guessed that green peppers and kale most be vile for me (they were right. Both taste rotten to me. Even if they are fine).
I did not really understand what it meant for something to be "bitter" until I tried bitter melon soup. I had never before nor have ever since eaten anything that bitter, if memory serves. I managed to eat (some) of it, so it can't have been UNBEARABLE, but it's taken a decade for the memory to fade to this level.
Would you say it was more bitter than grapefruit? I'm curious
@@bluefox5331 Just, normal grapefruit flesh? Or like, grapefruit peel? I don't remember ever eating grapefruit peel, but bitter melon soup was VASTLY more bitter (to me) than grapefruit flesh. OTOH, I don't think grapefruit really tastes bitter to me, so. But still, the soup was VERY BITTER.
I once had some bitter melon fish at a chinese restaurant. I can absolutely agree, never tasted anything so bitter before or since. It had a good flavor but the actual melon pieces I couldn't tolerate very much of
There is a belief in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that bitter foods have health benefits (reduces internal 'heat' during summer and reduces inflammation). While living in Asia, I became accustomed to eating bitter melon slices sauteed with egg and salt, which helps cut the bitterness a little bit, but it's definitely the dominant flavour...
Thank you guys for all that you do. I really appreciate having videos I can shut my brain off for and just absorb, because I know they’ve been fact checked and researched.
Man I wish I could see the full label you made for the IPA. xD Did you make a complete one or is the text at the side just giberish?
Oh, it's complete, and it is awesome :) We'll be sharing it with our community over at Patreon, just in case you've joined us over there!
The smaller set of familiar foods certainly manipulate us from hating it to loving it (and vice versa). Bad coffee is one of those culprits.
Every time I give proper freshly ground coffee to friends who’ve only had bad coffee they’re amazed at how there’s no noticeable bitterness at all
@@kaitlyn__LI mean, strong shot of espresso is bitter-
I liked the beer aisle a lot more back when IPA's were a small fraction of the beer sold. I enjoy an IPA, but I also enjoy other beers. These days, most of the beer selections I see are majority IPA to the point where it can be hard to locate where any other beer is on the aisle.
Unfortunately, what your retailer sells is based on local demand. I was seeing the same thing as you over time, then I moved to the county where the American Homebrewers Association is based out of. The variety here is great. Honestly sometimes I wish there were more IPAs to choose from.
I generally like IPA, I just hate how much diacritics they have to put in it😂😂
Diacritics? You mean the text on the labels?
@@elio7610 Yeah, some of the text is straight up unpronounceable!
Might explain why I don't taste broccoli, like at all. I eat broccoli fairly often and do get the texture (just like eating a thinner tire) but absolutely no flavor from it. It's healthy at least and as much as the texture isn't appetizing, I don't hate it.
Raw broccoli is 🤮, and tire's not a bad description of the texture. Steamed broccoli is so good though, it can just be hard to time right.
Broccoli absolutely has other tastes than bitter- if eaten without salt raw it's even a bit sweet.
Broccoli is supposed to be bitter?????
I'd like to thank Jeff Gerstmann for originally breaking this important story when the switch cartritges came out. More journalists need to taste things.
I think about this sometimes... I love coffee, green veggies, and peaches, which have a definite, bitter undertone compared to a lot of other fruits. Thanks for another informative video!
Wow I didn't know peaches were bitter to people! Is that common? They're ridiculously sweet and maybe a little savory to me!
That 0:30 green cucumber thing “karaila” is the bitterest think I’ve ever tried. But love it.
Generally I only consume bitter stuff with large amounts of sugar, at which point it becomes like a bitter spice for the sweet sugar.
I'm really sensitive to certain types of bitterness, and I really still don't understand. I don't drink most alcoholic beverages due to that, and avoid bitter greens like the plague, though I can tolerate those if they're mixed with other stuff in a salad
Watching this while drinking coffee at 7pm was interesting when I was initially agreeing that I hated bitter foods... then realised... and then it made it so much better
Great video- covers everything I would think, especially the all-important note at the end- almost all our foods are complex mixtures now, relatively few are raw plant straight off the source and mixed with nothing. And if it is, chances are it's one of the less bitter options.
MinuteFood is becoming one of my favourite channels to see a new upload from!
I love the occasional Pokémon references they sneak into this video (on both this channel and on MinuteEarth). In this one I found two: Brute Bonnet in the forest when they were talking about how humans aren’t searching through unknown plants, and Caterpie when they were talking about how animals sometimes eat medicinal bitter herbs. However, there could be one I didn’t find.
Am I weird for not thinking olives are bitter? I thought they were only bitter if they're fresh off the branch and they need to be treated with lye?
Yeah I don’t find olives or walnuts bitter, or really broccoli. I guess I don’t have those specific genes. I’m really sensitive to bitterness in chocolate or coffee, and in citrus, though.
I expected this comment section to have a lot of people talking about how they tasted a nintendo cartridge one time. I guess it’s just me…
You should make a follow-up episode on why almost all lagers taste "skunky" to some of us. This is the main reason I focus on ales, they're the most common non-lager out there and I enjoy the taste and wouldn't really even call ales that bitter. I like stouts and hefeweisens and some other varieties of beer too, but lagers are the worst to me. I've been told it's either they way lagers are brewed which has key differences from ales, or perhaps my taste buds are sensitive to compounds produced when light enters the green bottles lagers are usually sold in and causes a chemical reaction in the lager. One particular lager that comes in brown bottles, I enjoy! So either it's brewed in a special way, or the brown bottles block sunlight better and it doesn't have that reaction.
Also cool fact about the Switch carts, I was watching closely to see when that relevant info would pop up in the video.
You got me craving that IPA beer you showed at the end of the video!
Great video! I wonder if there are differences in recognition or attraction to bitter foods in different cultures. Anecdotally, I had a friend who told me that in Vietnamese culture, it is quite common to have a number of bitter foods or dishes that are perfectly well-liked over in Vietnam. I know I do enjoy a good bitter drink from time to time.
Love this new channel as much as I enjoy all those bitter beers and foods 😋
I've never thought broccoli was bitter, guess my genes to bitter aren't that strong, but I too have quite a few bitter tasting foods I love
I also never realized that broccoli is apparently bitter! I absolutely love it and I've never tasted any bitterness in it.
I'm a supertaster, so my experience of bitter is way more intense than most people. I can barely stand coffee, dark chocolate is disgusting and alcohol is almost painful. Even knowing this I did try one of those test strips but I just barely touched my tongue to it.
And for science, I just put the tip of a Switch cartridge on my tongue and oh my god that is terrible
The strip was just paper for me, but a Ds game sent me straight for water and food to rid my mouth of the taste.
I know the feeling. I was at least lucky to try out one of those test strips in a college lab, so I wasn't alone in my misery from how terrible is tasted. Most of the other class got a great laugh at the few of us there were. (It was funny seeing 4 or 5 people in class dying while the other 40 just stood there confused because they only tasted paper.)
I just did the same thing with a switch cartridge. It tasted very mild to me but also notable artificial and potentially toxic. I can see baby's even if they taste it only a little bit wanting to spit it out.
Fun seeing something in a video and being able to try it out right away 😀
your videos never fail to be entertaining yet very informative
I am definitely sensitive to bitterness, but it's weird. There are some bitter flavors I actually like- lime, grapefruit, leafy greens, olives, etc. However, me and chocolate is not as pleasant a relationship. What is weird is that as a kid I liked chocolate and as a young adult I despise it- especially dark chocolate
I remember doing that PTC test in a high school science class! I couldn't taste the stuff.
I can't stress enough how many times I wasn't sure if a piece of food was already off, tasted a little tiny piece of it, felt bitter, knew I need to throw it out. It's a essential taste humans have.
Who else stoped the video immediately at @2:52 and proceeded towards their switch?
I regret liking the cartridge...
Thanks for posting another great information video. I'm learning lots from a topic I never know much about previously!
most of the foods u mentioned i had no idea were even bitter until you mentioned it
Some bitter herbs also aid digestion by increasing saliva or gastric juices which is why bitter liqueurs have been served before or after meals.
The fact she drew a Luvdisc (Pokemon) in minute 4:53 is such a cute detail
In my experience, especially with IPA, the bitterness gets addictive and make other, more maltier beer taste too sweet / rich / less fresh. It took me a long time to come back down from that and I'm now careful not to drink hoppy beers too often compared to other types. I imagine the same might be true for other greens (like ruccula and dark roast coffee)
9% alcohol is why I... erm... "like" IPA's....
I generally hate bitter, the only exception being dark chocolate
I think one of the worst bitter things (and it's also fairly gross) is earwax. I have this thing where I'll go in my ears with a pen, and then accidentally put the pen in my mouth. Instant regret guaranteed every time.
I guess it's your body's way of telling you not to put your pen in your ear.
Alas... earwax...
@@jdawg443 ...or in their mouth lol
Finally this channel is answering the REAL food questions
I used to load my coffees with sugar, but now I usually go for pure black. Along with liking bitter foods more as I age, I also like sweets less.
this channel is becoming one of my favorites
Thanks for another great video, Minute Food Team.
Pokemon cameos:
Brute Bonnet @ 2:13
Caterpie @ 4:13
*Luvdisc @ 4:53
Did I miss any?
Luvdisc @ 4:53
ChubbyEmu: A woman ate a Nintendo Cartridge. This is what happened to her ...
Fascinating!
My biggest question about bitterness is why I love broccoli, but try as I might (and I have tried, even recently) I canNOT deal with Brussels sprouts. When I last tried them, I involuntarily gagged, but was able to get it down. My response: pretty good, other than the overwhelming bitterness!”
Those two are bitter for nearly the same reasons, though, right? I can’t taste the bitterness in broccoli at all.
Who else watched this and was compelled to taste a Switch cartridge?
not after this video, but i definitely licked mario kart after i heard about the bitter coating the first time.
god i've seen three different titles and thumbnails for this video. fwiw i liked the first (plain, straightforward) one the most but i clicked on this one because now is when i have time to actually watch it. also, i love bitter drinks and foods! especially ripe puer tea
I think bitterness disgusts me but like a fun way. I’ve become much more into all bitter and acidic foods as I’ve gotten older
Dan already referencing the latest version of Pokémon and even referencing the ancient form of the Pokémon too! Great Easter egg.
Brute Bonnet!
Great video!
lovely lesson :)
Super fun, thanks!
At 2:43: A Nintendo Switch console is featured in this video.
At 4:14: Caterpie, the Worm Pokémon, from the Pokémon franchise is featured in this video.
Brute Bonnet at 2:13 and Luvdisc at 4:53, courtesy of a comment above!
@@shadowrylander Thank you so much! They were so hard to see almost like a Kecleon, the Color Swap Pokémon.
@@alphaapple1375 I saw eyes on a mushroom and immediately went, "Wait, what?" 😹
I’ve always hated any amount of bitterness, and I didn’t know why other people did like it.
Then in college we took the PTC test strips in a genetics lab, and I had by far the strongest reaction to them. I had to wash out my mouth because the bitterness was so strong.
Meanwhile the girl sitting next to me couldn’t taste it at all.
Marketing influence, conformity, and "fear of missing out" is why some people do things
Kid #1 and Kid #2? Wow! Now I know perfect pairing names for if I have twins
Bitter beer is better beer
You sure it's not butter beer you're talking about?
maybe not for beer batter
💯💯💯 a hoppy IPA over a pale ale any day
The animations just keep getting more and more adorable....
I've noticed that my perception of flavors has changed since I was a kid, still, I'm reaaaly leary about trying brussels sprouts again. pretty sure I'll never like beer, I didn't have it as a kid, just an observation :P
Try them again, we have tips! Then report back. czcams.com/video/UaxzEztQcyg/video.html
Half the problem with brussel sprouts is the fact that they go bad fast. Buy fresh ones that don't have small black spots, halve them, check that the centers aren't pink, and bake them on a sheet with salt, garlic, and vegetable oil. It's not a guarantee you'll like them, but oven roasted is one of the best ways to have them.
@@MinuteFood That link is recursive and comes back to this video, but I think I recall a video y'all did a while back on the subject, I'll look into it.
@@gljames24 I might grow some, they are really weird looking plants, and I've been wanting to grow them for a while just to see them in real life haha. are pink centers from being too old or too young?
Oops! Fixed.
First time i tried radichio i thought it was red cabbage and i wanted to die when i tasted it. For me, i only consume sweet coffee/chocolate, hate grapefruit, and like fruity drinks. Also i prefer herbal tea to black tea. I think my autism ramps up my tastes because i can only really eat specific things and flavours sometimes.
I hate bitter things with greenery and grapefruit exception. Coffee,bitter chocolate,any kind of alcohol I just hate it. My brain doesnt even register them as foods.
Not sure but it can be a little bit cultural too, I was born and live in a part of the world where in summer temperature raises more than 40 degree celcius, now imagine you spent few hours outside without air conditioning, now it is lunch time you are exhausted and dehydrated and food will not taste good, now you have some dried neem leaves fried with egg plant it will clean your tast buds now have some source lentil soup with poopy seed patty and rice.
I enjoyed this bitter discourse while sipping on a nice IPA. For those who don't know: The term "bitter end" (meaning a finality that is often bad, or the completion of an unpleasant, long-running task) came from a nautical term referring to the inboard end of a chain or similar, often one that's wound around the _bitts_ -- posts or pairs of them on a vessel's deck, used for securing chains and such.
As a linguist, thank you.
I can deal with bitterness, but I can't deal with sourness
2:05 Fly agaric is not as deadly as many believe, they actually have psychoactive properties. But they can be deadly in higher doses.
Could you guys do a video on the physics of pots boiling over and why putting a wooden ladle or chopstick over the pot stops it?
Congratulations for such a good video!
If you eat dark chocolate enough, eventually you stop tasting the bitterness. It just tastes like normal unsweetened chocolate.
When I had COVID, strong bitter tastes were all I could taste, and the other flavors (except salt) still haven't completely come back. I used to drink my coffee with a lot of sugar to drown out the bitterness but now I usually drink it black.
I love all the Pokémon references in these videos lol
I drink my coffee black and enjoy it, but I absolutely cannot deal with the bitterness of the hops-heavy beers. IPAs taste like battery acid to me.
For whatever reason I really dislike the bitterness of coffee and tea and can't have them without copious amounts of sugar, but I like grapefruits and walnuts
I’m the opposite
Oh I can’t stand the bitterness of grapefruit
It just lingers and lingers
Unrelated, but having the NEO TWEWY Cartridge is an instant W in my Book.
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2:15 Is that a pokemon hidden on the far left? Behind the gorilla, the mushroom thing with the face, forgot what it's called.
2:14 Amoonguss
Christmas of 2020 since it was small and my family quarantined for fun we did those super taster strips. My dad could taste the bitter strongly and my mom couldn't taste it at all, All three of their daughters including me can taste the bitter compound. Both me and my husband can also taste the bitter compound as well as both of our children. My husband is more of a picky eater when it comes to the bitterness of vegetables but does enjoy IPAs that's it at IBU of 45-60, and dark chocolate, he also won't touch coffee. Well I find bitter to be a strong flavor I enjoy strong flavors in general and love black coffee, brussel sprouts are my favorite vegetable, And I love a super hoppy bitter IPA. I'm not quite into campari level bidders but an aperol Spritz is absolutely delightful. Even my children who will turn their nose up on certain bitter foods still seem to seek strong flavors and often those are also bitter. Both my kids enjoy the taste of coffee, love black tea, and dark chocolate at 3 and 6 yrs.
I'm really enjoying these videos and thanks for making interesting videos that also encompass food and eating as it's something all us humans do daily.
I can't have anything even slightly bitter. Makes me sick.
I love how many times this video's title has been changed
I think the key is to have bitterness mixed with other flavors. Chocolate IS bitter right out of the pod, but its always mixed with sugar and fat to balance it out. I love dark chocolate, but ever try 100% caccao baking chocolate? I couldn't even force down a bite. It's like poison.
I always wondered the same thing about hot food. Not "temperature hot", but "spicy hot". So many people love that. But why? In fact, "spicy" is not a taste, like salty or umami, it's actually pain! So why do people like food that gives them physical pain reactions?
The Pokémon cameo at 2:18 is a great little easter egg
Oh, there's another one at 4:18 too!
Battery makers (like Duracell and Energizer) put something very bitter on their CR2032 button batteries to keep kids from eating them, too. I don't know what it is, but I can smell it as soon as I open the package. I don't even have to accidentally taste it! It makes me wonder if other people can smell it, too, or if some people can only taste it.
This is the very same compound as what's on the Nintendo cartridges, denatonium benzoate!
I'm planning to buy radicchio early next week to eat with matzo. I don't consider lettuce bitter enough.
i'm incredibly sensitive to bitter flavors.
my coffee is more cream than coffee, some milk chocolates are too bitter for me, and beers with almost no hops in them are still disgustingly bitter to me.
i honestly wish i could turn this off.
if it wasn't for denatonium benzoate I'd be eating nintendo switch cartridges like popcorn
The ability to favour bitterness increases as we age. As Millennials like you (and me) get older, we are pushing the market towards bitterness.
This is the same reason why teenagers and young adults favour sweet alcoholic drinks, but hate beer. Yet as they get closer to 30s they move more to beer, which is more bitter.
Coffee is an exception because the bitterness is compensated by the addictiveness of caffeine. So low caffeine is less attractive.
Is the International Phonetic Alphabet on the tap at **your** local bar?
In one scene you showed some science books can you share your science cooking reading list ?
I saw the title and thumbnail and went "they don't? Everything being pointed to on the thumbnail tastes terrible."
I hate anything bitter except semisweet chocolate.