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The Joy Cardin Show
Wednesday, May 24, 2017, 8:00am
By Gretchen Brown

Face scrunched, tongue out. Babies often have pretty hilarious reactions when something doesn’t taste so good. They pucker up at the first taste of a lemon, cringe at an olive. But as it turns out, there’s a biological reason why children are so averse to bitter or sour flavors.

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