• Question: Is there a gene for liking or disliking marmite?xxx

    Asked by tomalie to Lena, Asif, Laura, Sean, Viv on 15 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by 2468hd.
    • Photo: Lena Ciric

      Lena Ciric answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      Good question. I’m afraid I don’t know the answer. I hated marmite for years but now I have it on my toast every morning.

      Have a look at this link: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=21575.0. A scientist did a little poll of his friends and family and he thinks that marmite and celery hating is genetically linked.

    • Photo: Sean Murphy

      Sean Murphy answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      In Australia we have something called Vegemite, similar to Marmite but better. As Australians have evolved from the British people, we evolved Marmite as well. This suggests that the Marmite-liking genes have evolved with the Australian people. 🙂

    • Photo: Laura Waters

      Laura Waters answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      I don’t like Marmite but I like Twiglets, what does that mean?!

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