But now, sadly I can't finish a banana I am like that with bananas too! I love them but now they gag me! My dr today told me I need to eat more of them though because I am really low on potassium!
For me its anything with Chocolate. I can't believe this is my baby in me and it hates chocolate. I threw up a banana with my first pregnancy. Ten percent to 15 percent of adults regularly gag while eating perfectly edible food — often sticky stuff, like bananas — and only some stop to consider the weirdness of it.
For others, the problem transcends weird. Many " picky eaters " have actually been forced into their state of malnourishment by the fact that almost everything they put in their mouths except, say, their beloved chicken nuggets triggers their gag reflex.
Some kids gag so easily they're in danger of starving to death. Now, scientists have finally pieced together the explanation for this rampant gagging. Better yet, they have stumbled upon a simple fix that exploits a strange neural connection between the back of our mouths and the palms of our hands. Aside from preventing choking, the human gag reflex serves a vital purpose during infancy: It helps moderate the transition from liquid to solid foods, said Donna Scarborough, a professor of speech pathology at Miami University of Ohio and a leading expert on gagging problems.
When everything goes as planned, the reflex gradually gives way, allowing most chunky bits down our gullets by the 9-month mark. However, in a sizable minority of people, this letting go doesn't happen properly. The answer is: probably—with relatively minor differences. You might be more sensitive to dark chocolate or the bitterness than I am. You may regard it as very sweet if you don't eat chocolate very often. That's an issue with the way our brain compares experiences.
If I hate something you like, is it our brains or mouths that are different? Everything is in the brain. When we talk about likes and dislikes, it's pretty much always about exposure.
My wife, for example, doesn't like lamb because of that lamby smell. She wasn't brought up eating lamb. I was, so I quite like that flavour. That sort of different exposure to things accounts for most differences in taste preferences. There are some relatively minor differences—again in sensitivity to bitterness—but those things don't count for an awful lot.
So, if it's mental, you can teach yourself to like and hate things? Most people have had the experience of starting off hating something, but eating it because their friends eat it, and they actually end up liking it. And that's not so uncommon. So that's primarily what's producing the change, just the exposure. What about people who taste coriander as soapy dishwater? What's that? That's one of those minor differences between people. They have a genetic variation that simply means that coriander tastes different to them.
That's quite a common one; a good percentage of people find coriander quite objectionable. Are there other foods like that? Some people don't like pork because it tastes very barnyard-y to them. That's another genetically determined variation where some people are very sensitive to a compound called androstenone,a pig pheromone. If it's genetic, can you inherit preferences from your parents? Yes, you can, actually. Something like 50 percent of food preferences are inheritable.
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