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Is there any food you don’t like, while many others just can’t ____ loving it?

For Isabella, such food ____ cilantro, the green leaves common in the cuisines of Thailand, Mexico, Morocco, and many other countries.

Even though her family is from Thailand, Isabella loves meeting other people who don’t like cilantro since they don’t make her ____ so odd or weird.

Cilantro is one of those polarizing foods with ____ of fans and haters, which often include mushrooms, olives, and blue cheese, among others.

“Love it” or “hate it” is pretty clear ____ these foods, but there could be many reasons behind the preference.

Let us talk about ____ of them.

First ____ all, we need to be clear about the role of the tongue.

____ information our tongues send to our brains is very simple.

We generally like sweetness and hate bitterness, and the biological reasons for that are deeply ____ in our brains.

For ____ babies like sweet tastes, not bitter ones, since bitterness can indicate poison.

Not liking bitter things is, in a sense, ____ natural defense mechanism.

Due to genetic ____ some people may be more sensitive than others to bitterness.

Interestingly, how sensitive you are to bitterness doesn’t always relate to whether or not you like a certain type of ____

For example, the fact that someone thinks celery is more bitter than other people ____ it does not necessarily mean the person can’t grow to like it.

Likewise, even if you find ____ to be less bitter than others do, you may still hate it.

The ____ our tongues convey does not, however, paint a full picture of the world of tastes.

There are also flavors, a wider spectrum of sensations we get ____ food.

To appreciate flavors such as chocolate, vanilla, blue cheese, and cilantro, we need ____ just our tongues, but more importantly our noses.

As we chew food, its smells make their way to the back of our noses from inside our mouths, enabling us to distinguish ____ many flavors.

Some scientists discovered that individuals with a certain gene are more sensitive to the smell ____ cilantro.

These people are likely ____ say it has a soapy flavor.

Can we learn ____ like a food we’ve long disliked?

“Your biology is not your destiny. When you’re open to different foods, you learn to like what you eat,” answers Julie Mennella, a researcher from the Monell Chemical Senses ____

She says that kids are particularly adaptable when it ____ to learning to like new foods.

Research has shown that after ____ a food eight or ten times, children will become more accepting of it.

Similarly, even ____ who hate cilantro may be able to learn to tolerate it or even like it.

Over time and through exposure, they can build up tolerance to cilantro, by adding a small amount in a curry, for ____

While preferences can be changed, usually after a few trials, significant experiences with foods — ____ those you had when you were young—can have a lasting effect.

____ you are hospitalized.

Confined to a bed, you get served miyeokguk ____ many times.

Then, you could ____ the food for a long time.

In contrast, associations with good memories can make you ____ some foods.

For example, you might love sujeonggwa simply because of a warm, happy memory of ____ grandmother making it.

Food preferences ____ across cultures, too.

Every culture may ____ something that is considered disagreeable in other cultures.

Durian fruit from Southeast Asia or ____ sweet potato pie topped with marshmallows may seem distasteful to people not familiar with them.

In fact, food preferences in different parts of the world have a lot to do with what is available or essential: for instance, beans in Mexico, okra in India, ____ fermented shark in Iceland.

Of ____ we cannot predict food preferences solely on the basis of a person’s cultural background, as Isabella’s case showed with cilantro.

It is not surprising that our food preferences are as varied as ____ foods we eat.

Some of the preferences are ____ and some are learned.

Given this, is it any wonder that all sorts ____ foods have both fans and haters?