Like beer and coffee? It's the buzz, not the taste!

The reason we consume coffee and beer is not the taste, according to a new research. Scientists at the Northwestern University studied taste genes in people to understand their beverage preferences, and perhaps intervene in their diets. They studied the number of servings of bitter and sweet beverages consumed by over 3 lakh individuals in the UK Biobank and published the sudy in the journal Human Molecular Genetics. The study revealed that these preferences are not related to the taste genes, but instead to the genes related to mental processes triggered by the properties of these beverages. They concluded that people liked how coffee and beer made them feel, and it had nothing to do with the taste.