IT’S A REAL THING, OK?!
You heard it here (or on the SciShow), it's OFFICIALLY A REAL THING! Your cilantro aversion isn't just your imagination, and here's some science to prove it.
If you're part of the 4 to 14% of people who have this problem, cilantro usually turns meals from this:
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To this:
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It turns out it's not you, it's your genes. In a study of 30,000 people, researchers found that people who hated cilantro had similar smell receptor genes. They shared the gene OR6A2.
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