I hate peanut butter but I wish I liked it. I everyone is re a peanut butter and jam (jelly for the Americans) I want one so bad but I hate the flavour peanut butter. It’s the same with eggs I wished I liked eggs but I can’t stand them. So does anyone know why the body does not like certain foods?
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People are born with about 300k taste buds, and we die with 100k. Children are more sensitive to certain flavors (bitter or sour plants can be poisonous if we still lived in the wild) to keep them safe from putting anything and everything in their mouths. Its why most children don’t like the taste of coffee, beer or wine.
Some people have even more taste buds (the little sensors in your mouth that taste sugar, salt, alcohol, etc) than others, which makes some foods taste too intense to them
Some people have texture sensitivities, and don’t like slippery, oily, pasty, greasy or curdled (e.g. yogurt, clumpy jelly) foods.
Some people can taste more ‘details’ than others. Like some people can taste the soapy element in cilantro (fresh coriander), while most people can barely taste that, so it doesn’t bother them.
And none of this includes how complex our nose system is. Your nose has a lot to do with what you like as well.
To widen your food choices, as you get older, you should taste the things you don’t like now. Kids who think brussel sprouts, or yogurt, is disgusting now, may like them in their 20s, after their bitter and sour taste buds have mellowed out a bit. It took me until my 30s to like coffee, it was always too bitter.
There is no right or wrong, or obligation to enjoy certain foods. Go with what you like, and don’t let people force their preferences on you. Just because you’re Italian doesn’t mean you have to love espresso.
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