Eat bitter, taste sweet!! The science behind bitterness in children
KEYWORDS:- bitter, ancient, toxic, gene, children, tastes AVG READING TIME - 7 mins The foods present all over the world fall into these six tastes- sweet, salt, spicy, bitter, sour, and umami. It is essential that there must be a balance in the six tastes to keep the body in balance. Our ancestors used to have a diet that had all those six tastes in harmony and that could be a reason for them being healthy. On the contrary, the younger generation tends to like and have only three tastes namely sweet, salt and spicy, and even sometimes sour. Most of the children in this generation would not have even experienced all the six tastes. Most of them would not know how umami tastes and they would have known it through study. Most of the children in this generation love to eat sweet, spicy, and salty foods and sometimes sour food but they hate to eat bitter food. There will be happiness and joy in the face of a child when he is given a packet of chips or ice cream but the face e...