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[-] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 25 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 40 points 6 months ago

Bitter and spicy kinda sounds like an allergy my dude

[-] Duranie@literature.cafe 8 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

[-] rudyharrelson@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 8 points 6 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.

[-] Juice@midwest.social 4 points 6 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

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 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.