Did you fight with your mom over finishing your broccoli and Brussels sprouts?
Would you gladly give up coffee forever if you had to drink it black?
The results: Of the 266 people who contracted the virus, only 15 were from the supertaster group.
More than half 147 were nontasters.
And of the 55 people who became sick enough to require hospitalization, none were supertasters.
The scientists explain that we naturally produce nitric oxide in our respiratory systems when the taste gene is triggered.
The nitric oxide helps kill airborne viruses or at least keeps them from reproducing in the respiratory tract.
you’re free to judge your own tasting abilities with a simple test.
Then take a piece of three-hole loose-leaf paper and place it against your tongue.
Your raised taste buds will poke through.
Count them as best as you’ve got the option to.
Between 15 and 30 makes you a taster, and fewer than 15 means you’re a nontaster.
Even if you’re a lucky supertaster, that’s not an invitation to throw caution to the wind.
