Eli5: Why do Adults generally enjoy bitter tasting things (ie. Coffee, beer, dark chocolate) when children rarely do?
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Children aren’t very smart, and in the wild they might eat poisonous or rotten things without knowing not to. Children are sensitive to these flavors of bitter and rot so that they stay safe.
Adults have an easier time overriding the disgust, and it’s less important that an adult have that instinct, because they’d know not to eat rotten food.
This is why most kids don’t like beer. It tastes like something rotten (old hops) and your brain tells you not to drink it.
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