wikipedia—the article puts the prevalence at about 25% for people of European decent, but they’re defining supertasters as people who experience tastes more intensely, and it does correlate with disliking alcohol and bitter flavors.
On the other hand, using the expansive definition of supertaster, for all I know there are people who experience bitter intensely, enjoy it, and make fine distinctions between different bitter flavors.
wikipedia—the article puts the prevalence at about 25% for people of European decent, but they’re defining supertasters as people who experience tastes more intensely, and it does correlate with disliking alcohol and bitter flavors.
On the other hand, using the expansive definition of supertaster, for all I know there are people who experience bitter intensely, enjoy it, and make fine distinctions between different bitter flavors.