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All rights reserved Back to top. SUBSCRIBE Aug. 24, 2012, 10:41 PM UTC By Meghan Holohan When the American Licorice Company announced on Wednesday it was voluntarily recalling its black licorice Red Vines because of high levels of lead, about half the country paused and thought, Wait, people eat black licorice The other half (presumably mostly curmudgeonly grandfathers and uncles) became disappointed to learn it would be harder than ever to find the sweet treat. Licorice, which comes from the root of Glycyrrhiza glabra plant, flavors what we call black licorice (which is redundant), liqueurs such as Jagermeister, and medicines such as NyQuil, which relies on the pungent flavor to mask the medicinal taste. Even though it commonly appears in products, licorice seems polarizing. People either love it or hate it and, as far as I can tell, its not a learned like or dislike, says Marcia Pelchat, an associate member of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, a nonprofit center, which researches taste and smell. I dont know a specific gene that is associated with liking and disliking licorice. The news and stories that matters, delivered weekday mornings. Sign Up This site is protected by recaptcha Privacy Policy Terms of Service While experts havent conducted much research on licorice preference, Pelchat who dislikes the flavor but is married to a lover of licorice shares a few theories as to why licorice divides us between the lovers and the haters. When we eat, we use both the sense of taste and smell to detect flavor. When we bite into a piece of licorice, we taste glycyrrhizin, a natural sweetener in licorice root, which can taste, to some, like saccharin, the artificial sweetener found in Sweet n Low. With licorice, this sickly sweet lingers, causing some to wrinkle their noses in displeasure. What this suggests to me is maybe liking and disliking licorice is related to liking and disliking saccharin, Pelchat says. Licorice also contains anethole, which is aromatic and plays on our olfactory sense. Anethole also occurs in anise and fennel, both of which licorice haters might find more tolerable. Anise and fennel flavor absinthe, for anyone who thought it, too, might be a licorice liqueur.) Taste seems to be built-in; it doesnt require any learning, she explains, adding that people can train themselves to like spicy foods, or even cilantro. While this means people might dislike licorice because it reminds them of the smell of NyQuil, or another malodorous memory, Pelchat suspects that its really the taste, not the smell that turns people off. There are lots and lots of genes involved in the perception of flavor and of aroma and we probably all have relatively unique sensory worlds. So thats just something to keep in mind in talking about individual differences in preference. Related: Red Vines black licorice recalled over high lead levels Who hates cilantro Study aims to find out Cilantro haters are mutants Meghan Holohan About Contact Careers Coupons Privacy policy Do Not Sell My Personal Information CA Notice Terms of Service NBCNews.COM Site Map Advertise Ad Choices 2020 NBC UNIVERSAL.
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