Picky eating could be GENETIC: Scientists identify two genes which make some people have hyper-sensitive tastebuds

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Picky eating could be in your genes, new research reveals. 

Two genetic variations that code for picky eating habits have been identified for the first time by scientists. 

Both genes are related to bitter taste receptors, but one is linked to children who just don’t like the taste of certain foods, while the other is associated with fussiness and meal-time power struggles.

This new understanding of how children’s tastes develop could help the researchers from the University of Illinois’s Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention Program (I-TOPP) develop strategies to help parents introduce healthy diets to their children.

These findings dispel the notion that poor parenting is solely to blame for picky eating. Instead, it’s caused by a combination of parent’s genes and environmental factors. 

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