Tasting chlorophyll

[David Haas]

Dear Plant-eders


    Here's one I've never heard.  One of my students said that she 
had done a lab in school where the teacher had the students taste 
leaves to see if they could taste chlorophyll.  She said it was 
analogous to the PTC test in genetics where  some are tasters and 
others not and this is why some people don't like green vegetables.  
Has any one ever heard this???  It sounds like an urban or rural mith 
but if there is one thing i have learned in life is that I can be 
wrong!  

Dave Haas 




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Dave Haas                               
Department of Natural Sciences    
Fayetteville State University    
Fayetteville, NC 28303           
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"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One 
path leads to despair and utter hopelessness.  The other, to total 
extinction.  Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." - 
Allen Konigsberg.