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I’m not sure what phenylketonuria has to do with this. Phenylketonuria is a rare genetic disorder that leaves you unable to process an amino acid, phenylalanine

I’m not sure what phenylketonuria has to do with this. Phenylketonuria is a rare genetic disorder that leaves you unable to process an amino acid, phenylalanine. This has nothing to do with taste or sugar, as far as I know. It does mean that you have to have a special diet low in phenylalanine to control your phenylalanine levels. A certain percentage of people get a bitter taste from stevia. Kind of like how a certain percentage of people get a soapy taste from cilantro.

bradknowles 4y ago
In this case, phenylketonuria is the first condition I ever heard of where it could affect your taste buds. I ran into this in high school, when my best friend could taste the slightest amounts of phenylalanine, but no one else in the school could. Our science teacher was very pleased to have him in the class, because he could now dive deeper on genetic conditions, with a real world example right there in the room. And, as it just so happens, cilantro does taste like soap to me, and I have been a subscriber to nocilantro.com for many years. And so now, I've been wondering if there's a similar problem with Stevia, where I am again affected negatively. And so I mentioned phenylketonuria as the poster child for that pattern. Maybe I need to see if there is a nostevia.com domain that I can subscribe to, or create one if not?