Being A Picky Eater Is All In Your Head

Hate Brussels sprouts? Can't stomach mushrooms? Think cilantro tastes like soap? It's (pretty much) all in your head. When studies linking the world's most polarizing herb, cilantro, to genetics made the rounds in 2010, cilantro haters everywhere felt validated. Hating cilantro wasn't their fault, cilantrophobes explained. It was a characteristic they were born with, like hair color or height. But while these studies carry scientific backing, they don't present the full story, which is that we have all evolved to have an innate distaste for bitter and unfamiliar vegetables and herbs. …