The study of how food interacts with genes is known as Nutritional Genomics, that encompasses nutrigenomics, which explores the effects of nutrients in the genome, proteome and metabolome, as well as nutrigenetics, whose main goal is to elucidate the effect of genetic variations on the interaction between diet and disease.
If a scientist is planning to carry out such an experiment it wouldn't be appropriate to go and test this right ahead without any serious protection. It is always advised that scientists first collect data after they've created their initial hypotheses and read the required literature.
