How did Brussels sprouts become more palatable?
Brussels sprouts went from being a rather despised vegetable, certainly among young children, but they have been accepted more and more in the past decades. It turns out, there’s a science-based reason why.
In the 1990s, Dutch scientist Hans van Doorn identified the chemical in Brussels sprouts that made them bitter. According to findings published in van Doorn’s 1998
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