Are men genetically predisposed to soy hatred??

Question

How is it a man can taste the soy, say in enchiladas, but my meat eating female friends can't?? and why the crazy reactions? is it really that bad for you? seriously?

Answer 1

my husband loves bacon bits in salad and on pizza.  they're soy.

Answer 2

Yes, I do believe men are genetically predisposed to hate soy, especially in the form of burgers.  

Answer 3

People's love of convenience food packed full of 'invisible' soya is a cause of declining sperm counts and a host of fertility problems, new research into its impact on Western diets reveals.

  

Many healthy foods such as soya milk and soya yogurt are also implicated.

  

A team led by Sheena Lewis, professor of reproductive medicine at Queen's University in Belfast, has conducted studies linking soya to reduced male fertility. Scientists believe chemicals in the soya bean mimic the female hormone, oestrogen.

  

The research is disclosed in an investigation into the multi-billion dollar global soya industry published in today's Observer Food Monthly magazine. It reveals that soya is no longer eaten just by vegetarians but used as cheap protein in most processed and fast foods.

  

Other research has linked the hormonal chemicals in soya to certain cancers, brain disease and developmental abnormalities in infants.  

Answer 4

Responses to some proteins are complicated. I'm not entirely clear how much of a food allergy, for example, is genetic predisposition and how much is environmental factors.

Soy protein is one of the more common allergens, too. Based on someone I know who is allergic to peanuts, I suspect that some sensitive people can quickly recognize an unpleasant reaction, and might (if they aren't dangerously allergic) simply think of it as tasting bad.

There might also be components which aren't allergenic but which some people can taste and others can't. I know brussels sprouts work that way: the people who can taste one particular bitter component don't tend to like them (to a greater or lesser extent depending on freshness and processing); others, like me, just plain like sprouts because we can't taste that particular component at all.

Some might simply be expecting the particular taste and "mouth feel" of real meat, and react badly to getting something different. It's quite common to find something objectionable simply because it's different from what you expected. (Try a carob-flavored cake when you're expecting it to taste like chocolate; then try it again thinking of it as something vaguely similar to chocolate, but different and intended to be so. As a chocolate substitute, it's garbage; but as a separate taste, carob's not bad!)

The gender-based difference in reactions could be a number of things:

(1) The men are more accustomed to expecting nothing but real meat.

(2) Some difference in the way it tastes is genetically recessive and carried on the portion of the X chromosome which is unmatched by the Y, so that the gene is unexpressed in many of the women who carry it but in none of the men. Haemophilia and color-blindness both work that way.

(3) The men are more socialized to make a fuss when something isn't "just so!"

With respect to the third possibility, I'm not clear on whether these people are being told they are eating something containing soy substituted for meat. If they are told (which because of the allergenic issues is a very good idea!), men in the U.S. are certainly more thoroughly socialized to express antipathies to meat substitutes. It's part of the frontiersman pose adopted by all of us, even if we're really computer nerds or middle management.

  

Answer 5

not genetically, lol, but definitely like real meat! and milk, by the way, i mean c'mon....SOY MILK!?!?! ridiculous.

Answer 6

Seriously...

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