• Question: Why do we dislike certain foods? Is it to do with a thought we have or is it our tastebuds?

    Asked by bump44ace to Min, Marcello, Katie, Israel, Dheeraj, Aoife on 11 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by Ciara :), race44bat.
    • Photo: Marcello Valente

      Marcello Valente answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      Distaste for some kind food is caused by your sensibility to certain flavour (expecially with some vegetables), bad past experience, and from your country gastronomic taste

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      Min Yap answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      It might be due to past experience or sensitivity to certain textures, smells or tastes. It’s my experience though that I begin to like the foods I once disliked, like some vegetables. It might have just been the way it was cooked or presented previously.

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      Aoife McHugh answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      I am not sure I think it can be a mixture of our sense of smell, texture and taste buds. If we have had a bad experience previously, I think that the smell or thought of a food can bring back these bad sensations, even if we forget what the bad experience was.

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