Hello,I used to like vegetables until the age of 6, until I got a virus one winter, and after that moment, it became much harder for me to eat vegetables. Just seeing some of them would gross me out, and their texture started grossing me out too. A workaround was to eat soups or have vegetables mixed with other food like in couscous, other wise I would struggle with eating them, especially crude vegetables like cold tomatoes or salad which could go as far as making me throw up. But I never decided that I was suddenly going to dislike vegetables to annoy people, it happened and I could never figure why. There are explanations for fears like fear of heights or hydrophobia, but for fear of specific food I never heard anything other than it’s in your head or it’s comedy.
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conditioned taste aversion
There have been animal studies, that they tend to avoid certain foods after experiencing illness. Basically, a negative reaction is associated with a certain food, leading to future avoidance of said food.
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