Orange Liking

Your result, the one DNA position behind it, and what the research says.

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About Orange Liking

GIPR is the receptor for GIP, a hormone the gut releases when food arrives and which helps set how satisfying a meal feels. It turned up weakly attached to how much people said they liked oranges in a very large food-liking survey. Why a gut hormone receptor would touch oranges specifically is not explained anywhere, and the honest reading is that this is one small association among many that a survey of that size will throw up.

Good to know: Food liking was surveyed by questionnaire, so this measures what people say rather than what they eat. The measured difference between genotypes is small next to habit and what is available. Liking for most foods is heavily learned, especially in childhood.

Fun fact: GIP is one of the hormones behind the incretin effect: food eaten by mouth produces a bigger insulin response than the same sugar given intravenously.

Discovery: Oranges liking was surveyed genome-wide in UK Biobank.

The Variant

The single variant behind this trait

Gene: GIPR

Variant (rsID): rs10423928

Location: Chr 19:45,679,046

dbSNP rs10423928

The studies

Large-scale GWAS of food liking reveals genetic determinants and genetic correlations with distinct neurophysiological traits (May-Wilson S et al., Nature communications, 2022)

Other lifestyle traits

Protein Preference: A change in the regulator of the enzyme that starts glucose breakdown, linked to the share of energy people take as protein.

Bitter Drinks Liking: A change inside a vesicle-trafficking gene, linked to a cluster of liking for the bitter adult drinks: coffee, beer and wine.

Potato Chip Liking: A change in a non-coding stretch of chromosome 5, linked in a very large survey to liking for potato chips.

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Content updated September 2026.

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