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swedishdragon (68)in #coffee • 5 years ago (edited)

Us coffee lovers, you know that drinking coffee is a complex and nuanced fenomena— the aroma,comforting warmth & the loveliness of the ritual of sitting down with a fresh java.
But if you focus on the actual taste of coffee on your tongue, there’s no getting around the fact that it’s bitter, and bitterness isn’t always the most delectable taste.
Fact, a long ago, we evolved to avoid it. ;)

People with genes indicating high sensitivity to quinine and propylthiouracil tended to drink less coffee on average. But, unexpectedly, people with sensitivity to the bitterness of caffeine tended to drink more coffee..

Inborn aversion towards bitterness, which is a defensive mechanism that prevents ingestion of poisonous food?
Itsuggest a psychological phenomenon: “It is possible that coffee consumers acquire a taste for (or an ability to detect) caffeine given the learned positive reinforcement (i.e. stimulation) elicited by caffeine."

In other words, it's classical conditioning, as with Pavlov’s dogs. We learn the association between two stimuli—the bitter taste of caffeine and the energy boost we get from it.
Interesting that our predilection for (or indifference to) coffee might be handed down in the genes.

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