Ability to taste bitterness indicates higher chance of cancer

Being sensitive to bitter tastes could make you more likely to get cancer, according to research.

Millions of people are unable to taste a bitter chemical found in dark chocolate, coffee and broccoli, but they might not be missing out

However, super tasters – those who are particularly sensitive to a bitter chemical known as PTC – could be 58 per cent more likely to get cancer, reports the Daily Mail.

Researchers thought this They were wrong, they were thought to have cancer-fighting properties.

But they were wrong, and people who are super tasters do not taste less than those who can not taste PTC.

The study of 5,500 British women over 60 years of age who are not likely to get cancer.

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PTC – short for phenylthiocabamide – is a genetic trait which is thought to affect a third of Europeans.

Most people will experience PTC If they can taste it, in drinks containing caffeine, alcohol or in cruciferous vegetables like cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli.

Women who can not taste PTC are at least at risk of cancer, according to the study by Pennsylvania State University. [19659011Thosewhoareconsidered"tasters"-whocantasteitbutnotstrongly-aremorelikelytogetcancer

Supertasters, women who are very sensitive to the taste, may be 58 percent more likely to

"The difference in cancer risks is striking"

"The difference in cancer incidence between the women with the highest bitter-taste sensitivity and those with the lowest price" said Joshua Lambert, lead author of the study.

"Super-tasters had about 58 percent higher risk of cancer incidence, and the tasters had about 40 percent higher risk of developing cancer, compared to women who were clbadified as non-tasters. .

Researchers were surprised to find that they had not been able to eat their vegetables.

Dr Lambert added: "Our hypothesis was that women had higher bitter-

"We thought it would be more likely that they would have consumed fewer bitter-tasting vegetables, which have been reported to have cancer preventiv e activities.

"When we looked at the data, we saw that for women over 60, our hypothesis was partially correct.

" Cancer risk was higher among women clbadified as tasters or super-tasters, but we didn '

The researchers studied data from the UK Women's Cohort Study of 35,000 people who were set up in 1995 to explore links between diet and chronic diseases, particularly cancer.

This review was written in French and answered more by the participants than the above, and compared with NHS cancer data.

The researchers' findings were published in the European Journal of Nutrition.