Find out why your genes (and upbringing) decide your taste buds' destiny – and how preferences can change over time.

Cilantro, also known as a coriander and Chinese parsley, is an herb that ... have a gene that causes them to strongly pick up on cilantro’s aroma, which they say smells like soap.

This comment seems fitting if you have the gene as a lot of curries contain coriander. Another person said: "I went 24 years without tasting it [because] my parents also think it tastes like soap ...

but to some, it tastes like soap ... gene cluster that "bind(s) to aldehydes that give cilantro its specific odor," as the common denominator in respondents who don't like the herb.

They’re both green herbs, they have kind of a dead taste to ... “It can still remind me of soap, but it’s not threatening anymore, so that association fades into the background, and I ...