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RE: The 90 million year long evolutionary arms race that brought you... Wasabi
How fascinating! It had never occurred to me to wonder why eye-watering flavours exist in nature, but now I know. Followed for more!
Yup, the results of evolutionary pressure are invariably fascinating and plant insect systems (having had so much time to develop) provide some of the best examples :)