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Default Are Food Preferences Genetic?

>There is _one_ genetic component -- differences in the sense of taste.
>Example: to me, saccharin has a bitter taste. To my mother, it didn't.
> This is hereditary.


You're saying that taste perceptions alternate between generations, and that
this tendency to alternate is hereditary? Or what are you saying?

Neil