Whether you love or hate cilantro may be written in your DNA — and the ancient Greeks already compared its smell to crushed bedbugs.
The fresh leaves and stems of the coriander plant (Coriandrum sativum), used as an herb in cooking. In American English, cilantro refers to the leaves while coriander refers to the seeds.
From Spanish cilantro (coriander), a variant of culantro, from Latin coriandrum, from Greek koriannon (coriander), possibly from a pre-Greek Mediterranean source Key roots: coriandrum (Latin: "coriander"), koriannon (Greek: "coriander").
Whether you love or hate cilantro may be partly genetic. A 2012 study identified the gene OR6A2, an olfactory receptor gene, that makes some people perceive the aldehydes in cilantro leaves as soapy or metallic rather than fresh and citrusy. Approximately 4–14% of people of European descent have this variant, compared to about 3–7% of South