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Adults Who Hate Vegetables

Writer Daniel Martin

I don't eat a lot of vegetables either, and I agree that it's somewhat to do with texture, though for me, more to do with smell. I do eat many vegetables (lettuce of all sorts, uncooked spinach, onions, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers and celery) and will eat a few more if they aren't cooked, though I don't necessarily enjoy them (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots), but there are many I just simply can't eat: Greens, corn, squash (I don't even like pumpkin pie), okra, peas or beans of any sort. I also can't stand even the smell of many types of seafood. I can eat fish and shrimp if they're prepared the right way (fried only!) and even then, only if they have copious amounts of breading and don't taste too "fishy," and I still have to use plenty of sauce. For that reason, I mostly avoid seafood since the only way I eat it is if it's prepared in the least healthy manner possible. I used to eat tuna as a kid, but I can't even stomach it anymore.

I read somewhere that "super tasters" (yes, it's a thing) have a lot of trouble with vegetables- something to do with the bitterness in the vegetables themselves that typical eaters can't even taste. I suspect my problem has more to do with being a super "smeller" as I have a highly acute sense of smell and find foods that have a "rotten" or "off" smell almost impossible to stomach. To me, cooked vegetables smell like feces and seafood smells like unwashed genitalia. A few, like squash, smell fine, but the texture is inedible. I would hardly call my case "babytaste" as I've certainly branched out on what I will and won't eat since I was a child, and I love a large variety of foods and spices, and many different preparations of the foods I do enjoy.

For the record, my parents did try to feed me many and varied foods as a baby, and even as a child, but I refused them. As a baby, I would spit out anything that I couldn't get down, and as a child, they tried tempting me with favorite desserts to coerce me into eating vegetables, and I still wouldn't. I have attempted to overcome my aversions many times, but I will gag if I put them in my mouth, no matter how many times I try the offending foods. At this point, I've come to accept that this isn't something I'm going to grow out of, and there's enough variety in the foods I do eat that it's not usually a problem. I'm sure there are some nutrients I'm missing from my diet, but I take a multivitamin to replace anything I might be short on.