Paul Saladino· MD
we have a sense of taste for bitter because bitter is how we detect toxicity in foods most of the time
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we have a sense of taste for bitter because bitter is how we detect toxicity in foods most of the time
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the bitter taste that humans have evolved is a mechanism to detect toxins to detect poisons
the whole reason humans have bitter taste is to tell us there's a toxin in that thing you're eating