Fresh Fruit Preference

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

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About Fresh Fruit Preference

Fresh fruit intake was one of the dietary questions put to hundreds of thousands of people in UK Biobank, and several dozen positions in the genome came out weakly attached to the answers. This one sits near ETV5, a transcription factor active in the brain and involved in appetite signaling. What it describes is a small average difference in what people report eating, which is a long way from a preference you would notice in yourself.

Good to know: The measured difference in reported intake is very small. This gene is also linked to body mass, so the signal may run through appetite generally. Availability and habit shape fruit intake far more than genotype.

Fun fact: Dietary questionnaires are famously imprecise, which makes it striking that genetic signals show up in them at all.

Discovery: Fresh fruit intake was surveyed genome-wide in UK Biobank.

The Variant

The single variant behind this trait

Gene: ETV5

Variant (rsID): rs7647305

Location: Chr 3:186,116,501

dbSNP rs7647305

The studies

Comprehensive genomic analysis of dietary habits in UK Biobank identifies hundreds of genetic associations (Cole JB et al., Nature communications, 2020)

Other lifestyle traits

Water Intake: A change in a large calcium-release gene, linked in a UK Biobank survey to how many glasses of water people report drinking.

Spicy Food Liking: A change in a long non-coding RNA region near MEF2C, linked in a very large survey to how much people say they enjoy spicy food.

Breakfast Food Liking: A change near a brain adhesion gene, linked in a very large food survey to liking for typical breakfast foods.

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Content updated September 2026.

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