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When they say “love you” and your insides twirl like the beginnings of a good dough mixer.
I only see your smoke, but you hide behind something thicker and more toxic.
Went outside for a while.
Process of coffee making.
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If you hold your nose and take a sip of coffee, mostly what you’ll taste is a bitter liquid. Much of the gustatory pleasure we take from coffee comes from its aroma.
But a new study suggests people’s sensitivity to that bitter taste plays a role in how much coffee they drink. And though it seems counterintuitive, the study shows that the more sensitive you are to the bitter taste of coffee, the more of it you tend to drink.
A team of researchers conducted their analysis using data stored in something called the UK Biobank. More than 500,000 people have contributed blood, urine and saliva samples to the biobank, which scientists can use to answer various research questions. The volunteers also filled out questionnaires asking a variety of health-related questions, including how much coffee they drink.
Part of what determines our sensitivity to bitter substances is determined by the genes we inherit from our parents. So the researchers used genetic analysis of samples from the biobank to find people who were more or less sensitive to three bitter substances: caffeine, quinine (think tonic water) and a chemical called propylthiouracil that is frequently used in genetic tests of people’s ability to taste bitter compounds.
Then they looked to see if people sensitive to one or more of these substances drank more or less coffee than people who were not sensitive. To the researchers’ surprise, people who were more sensitive to caffeine reported increased coffee consumption compared with people who were less sensitive.
How to explain these results? Marylin Cornelis, assistant professor of preventative medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and one of the study authors says people may “learn to associate that bitter taste with the stimulation that coffee can provide.” In other words, they get hooked on the buzz.
Buzz, Buzz: Bitter Tasters Like Coffee Better
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