People who prefer bitter-tasting foods tend to be, well, bitter, a study claims.

They’re also meaner and more “anti-social” than those who like sweets, according to researchers at Austria’s University of Innsbruck.

Bitter taste preferences are associated with more pronounced malevolent personality traits, especially robustly with everyday sadism,” the study states.

By contrast, people who prefer sweet food are more likely to be “agreeable,” it states