This is why a lot of kids hate broccoli
Children often do not enjoy cabbage vegetables. Now researchers have discovered what happens when you eat it.
Nice green, but bad for many: Kids share an aversion to broccoli.
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For many kids, broccoli is just an ‘ah’. but why? A team of researchers investigated what happens when you eat certain types of cabbage. Their conclusion: only the chemical reaction with saliva makes the vegetable really disgusting.
In the mouth, saliva bacteria can produce sulfur-containing compounds that give off a foul odor. The high concentration of the compounds makes kids hate broccoli or cauliflower. This may also be an explanation for the aversion to other cabbage vegetables, according to the scientists report in the “Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.”
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