Current Events > Regarding the "cilantro tastes like soap" gene..

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Yeah j like it but sometimes too much of it can be a little u pleasant.

Even the smell of cilantro is enough to overwhelm me. Truly a wretched substance.

Basically the opposite for me, it always tastes like soap but if there's only small traces of it I can almost taste what I assume it's supposed to taste like.

there's a tipping point for me. a little bit is fine in a dish, too much and the soapy taste comes out. i use it very sparingly.

Im pretty immune to it, I can generally eat a decent amount of cilantro and it tastes fine to me.

Now parsley, on the other hand, tastes disgusting to me in anything other than small amounts. Other people tell me it doesnt taste like anything, but its like mildewy grass to me.

I wonder if it's a psychological thing. Like if you can find a person that doesn't know cilantro and coriander are the same and you gave them both if they would say they both taste like soap.

It does not taste like soap to me but I do not like it. Despite that, if I force myself to eat it I'll eventually start getting used to it. And for some reason, cooked cilantro (e.g. fried rice) tastes much better.

Not an issue for me but I do have something similar in another food. I'm one of those people that HATES blue cheese of any form because it smells and tastes like vomit to me and will legit make me puke and I guess because of some gene I'm extremely reactive to the butyric acid in it that is also in vomit and this is a documented food thing too in some people. Though it is in parmesan too and I don't react to that so I don't know.

To me its about as strong as a camphor leaf. At least the smell.

Huh, this is the first I'm hearing about this. I love cilantro. It doesn't give off a soapy flavor to me. I didn't know this was a thing for people.

It Doesn't have a taste to me. Ever since I moved to south texas and find it on everything. It tastes like nothing

I wish I didnt have the soap gene. So many cultures use it and its just a shame.

I get what you mean. I love cilantro enough to chomp on it by itself, stem and all. Its kinda like citrus.

But every now and then I get that hint of the soap I think other people taste.

I don't have the gene for cilantro, but I do think cucumbers taste like cheap shampoo

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Even the smell of cilantro is enough to overwhelm me. Truly a wretched substance.

This

I never had the soap problem with cilantro, but I didn't like it when I was younger, regardless. As I've gotten older I find it much more palatable. It's a strong, distinct taste, so I understand why people don't like it, gene or no gene.