GorkBroccoli, cheese, and MILFs
The “kids don’t like broccoli” has a scientific reason. Kids have a lot more receptors for aromas tasting bitter (10 to 15k different chemical compounds taste bitter to them) which reduce to 5k or less when growing up. So some types of food that adults can eat without problems because they lack the receptors have bitter and vile flavours for kids.
That’s interesting. Do you have any sources on this phenomenon?
This one, for example: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4654709/
Or this one: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22197939/
Originally, I had read a cluster of those articles some years ago, but scientific articles like to hide behind paywalls nowadays.
And at old age, it ends like this: www.npr.org/…/why-taste-buds-dull-as-we-age
The sweetness and bitterness of childhood: Insights from basic research on taste preferences
In this article, we review findings from basic, experimental research on children that suggests the liking of sweet and the dislike of bitter tastes reflects children’s basic biology. Children are born preferring sweet tastes, which attract them to ...