• Question: Could you edit my tastebuds so i couldnt like peas?

    Asked by huddersfieldtown to Emma, Jimmy, Janet, Niall, Simon on 18 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: James Holloway

      James Holloway answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      Haha! why do you want to dislike peas? Do you like them too much and eat them all the time?

      I don’t think this is possible at the moment 🙂

    • Photo: Simon Park

      Simon Park answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      Taste is quite a limited sense and the tongues taste buds can only detect sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and umami (savoury) so it might be better to modify your sense of smell. A lot of what you experience when you eat a pea is actually its smell which passes from the mouth to the nose through a a channel at the back of the mouth. To test this try eating a pea when your nose is blocked.

    • Photo: Niall Crawford

      Niall Crawford answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      Often people might not like a food because of other thing rather than taste, such as texture. Don’t like mushrooms for that exact reason.

    • Photo: Emma Ashley

      Emma Ashley answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      Why would not want to like the taste of peas?! They’re tasty and good for you! Like Simon said, you could try holding your nose and see if the peas taste any different?

    • Photo: Janet Daly

      Janet Daly answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      I agree with Niall – texture has a lot to do with it for me…I like ‘proper peas’ but hate mushy peas because of the texture.

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