And if you don’t want to open the link:
“Stink bugs “stink” because of two chemicals: trans-2-decenal and trans-2-octenal. Interestingly, those two chemicals are also found in cilantro (Coriander sativum), for which the mystery of why some people hate the taste of cilantro with a passion has been researched; turns out that only if you have a specific variant of olfactory receptors you can actually smell these two chemicals. People who have these receptors perceive both stink bugs and cilantro as soapy and pungent, while all others perceive it as neutral to pleasant. The part of the population who perceives stink bugs / cilantro as unpleasant is dependent on genetic ancestry and ranges from 3-21%”
Fun fact, stinkbugs produce a similar smell to cilantro. So to some people stinkbugs ironically smell nice.
What are you on about? Do you have different stinkbugs where you live? I like cilantro and stinkbugs smell nothing like it.
Try different genes. Cilantro tastes and smells like stinkbug to me, aka, disgusting.
I’ll link a reddit comment for source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entomology/comments/b5kv3l/comment/ejepo22/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
And if you don’t want to open the link: “Stink bugs “stink” because of two chemicals: trans-2-decenal and trans-2-octenal. Interestingly, those two chemicals are also found in cilantro (Coriander sativum), for which the mystery of why some people hate the taste of cilantro with a passion has been researched; turns out that only if you have a specific variant of olfactory receptors you can actually smell these two chemicals. People who have these receptors perceive both stink bugs and cilantro as soapy and pungent, while all others perceive it as neutral to pleasant. The part of the population who perceives stink bugs / cilantro as unpleasant is dependent on genetic ancestry and ranges from 3-21%”
Aight lemme just become a GMO so I can start likeling the smell I guess.
Some days I wish I could not smell it at all given how repugnant it smells to me.
Well yeah stinkbugs are repugnant.
Its the other way around, to some people cilantro have a similar taste than the smell of stinkbug.
For these people cilantro taste awful.
They smell vaguely like watermelons to me.