do different cultures have different tast buds?

Question

you should know right

Answer 1

I would say that genetically it might be true to SOME extent. Of course that would be pretty hard to tell, for instance in hot climates, they might like different food/tastes, however that's "social" or a result of geographic conditions.

Answer 2

Different cultures' have taste buds that become accustom to different foods and taste sensations but we all have the same tast buds...lol

Answer 3

Yes they do. I believe it has more to do with culinary arts and resources in the development of buds.
There is as well the preference for sweet, salty, bitter going to sensate pleasure.
There was an article sometime back about people whose taste sense went to the geometric. For instance, oval. I can relate with alum, it puckers the lips and concaves the tongue. Pins and needles? For me sometimes salt.
Foreign food has changed or developed palat and I love it.

Answer 4

No, it's just what you were brought up with. I was brought up in Europe where we ate a lot of cheese and chocolate. When I moved to NZ I was disgusted by the cheese and chocolate here, where my friends love that here and don't like the european stuff. It's what you are used to, nothing to do with taste buds.

Answer 5

The taste buds look the same, but what they are accustomed to and their likes and dislikes are different!

Answer 6

everyone has different taste buds. something you like to eat i might hate but as for cultures, they just become immune to the foods they eat. African American ppl for example generally like spicy foods.

Answer 7

No, just different tastes in foods. You usually like what you are served from the time you are a small child.

Answer 8

I think that if we're brought up eating a certain type of food- like American food for instance- then we adjust to it and other types of food- like spicy indian food- would taste bad to us, or weird. It makes sense, because some in some cultures it is normal to eat guinea pigs and other animals that we would find revolting. Its because they grew up on them.

Answer 9

i doubt it. there are aquired tastes though...and i dunno, i guess some cultures could pass down an immunity genetically - milk for example - when people first tried drinking milk, everyone was lactose intolerant and people had to build up an immunity over multiple generations. there are probably other cases of things like that, but none that i've heard of.

Answer 10

yess that true every one used to different eat suibal to his way of life i m arabic i went to china from recent time i couldnt eat wt they eat and i think they also cant eat wt i eat so every culture diffrent in that