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The problem with a ketogenic diet is its unpalatability — such as butter in almost every meal but no bread — which is perhaps why it is used mostly for young children rather than adults.

From Nature • Jul. 8, 2014

This classic work from 1940 details the countless ways in which creatures, especially insects, exploit colour and pattern resemblances in order to obscure them from sight or to advertise their unpalatability.

From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2011

Warning colours are associated with some quality or weapon which renders the possessor unpleasant or dangerous, such as unpalatability, an evil odour, a sting, the poison-fang, &c.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various

And it is very doubtful whether these exceptions will be sustained: indeed the suspicion of unpalatability already besets the Longicorns and is always on the heels,—I should say the hind tarsi—of a Phytophagous beetle.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)