People like and dislike various foods. Is it biological or learned¿?

Answer 1

It's psychological, sensory or learned.

I am very bad for that. I do not eat left overs because my psyche can't handle what spoilt food looks like and any notion that the food is old turn sme off even though it looks fine.

On the other hand any odd thing about food turns me off and I cannot continue to eat it. If the meat should be pink and its a faded pink, I cannot eat it. If it looks, smells or feels bad or odd I cannot eat it.

My husband will eat food 5 days later and that thought makes me sick. I cannot eat rich food - creamy, expensive dark cholcolate - it i stoo rich for my senses.

I do not eat pork because the woman I grew up with as a child, taught me that pork and shellfish is evil. I haven't lived with her in over 20 years and I still cannot bring myself to eat bacon or any pork or shellfish.

My son has autism and he has major sensory issues to food. He lives on hotdog and macdonald's french fries and chocolate milk.

Answer 2

YES!

From what I have read, it is both. Sometimes your body craves a certain food because it is lacking in something that the food provides. Sometimes, it is because your body may be allergic to it.

Other times you may have eaten something that made you sick. You learned that that food does not agree with you and thus do not like it. To this day there are certain foods that I don't like because of certain influences when I was a kid.

So it can be biological, learned or both!

Answer 3

you know, i really don't know and have wondered. for example, my mother raised me and wouldn't let me see my father. she loved certain foods and i hated them. when i found my father when i was 22, he loves a lot of the same things i love. so that makes me wonder if it's biological. but on the other hand, there are foods that i used to like that i now can't stand and foods i used to hate and now i love. for example spaghetti. i loved it as a kid, when i turned about 25 i hated it, now i love it but ONLY if i make the sauce myself. i can't stand the stuff in a jar. but i used to LOVE the stuff in a jar. both my parents loved spaghetti any way you cooked it. so maybe it's both biological and learned?

Answer 4

Learned..some people just don't like the way somethings taste or feel in their mouths.

Answer 5

It's soley up to your tastebuds. There are 11 members in my immediate family (2 parents, and 9 kids) we all like some things and hate other things.

I think cheesecake and oatmeal are disgusting.
My siblings like it, my folks like it.

Half of us like beer and half of us don't. It's not genetic or learned. ( You couldn't teach me to like oatmeal or cheesecake.)It's only preference.