Posted on 02/12/2021 5:19:00 PM PST by RummyChick
Bad experiences with food, like a dodgy curry that makes us ill for days, triggers a switch in our brains that means we never want to eat it again, a study reveals.
UK researchers have managed to replicate the effect of a negative experience on eating behaviour, using sugar-loving snails as models in the lab.
They used 'aversive training', which involved tapping the snails on the head when sugar appeared, as a proxy for food poisoning in humans, while being filmed.
Aversive training flicked an appetite-suppressing switch that meant the snails refused to feed on the sugar, even when hungry.
The experts think something similar is happening, leading to 'persistent physiological change' that's specific to a certain food for the rest of our lives.
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I think this explains a lot of finicky cat behavior.
I have a cat with digestive issues. We give him Pepcid. He doesn’t know that the reason he gets an upset stomach is that there is too much acid there, and so he avoids any food that he thinks caused his upset stomach. He’s literally starving himself.
I’ve been eating chocolate my whole life and no bad chocolate ever made me not crave chocolate.
Oh wait, there is no bad chocolate.
Nevermind.
I got a bone stuck in my throat from canned tuna fish when I was a kid. Haven’t been able to eat tuna since. Never really liked it even before that happened.
I did this with grape cool aid as a kid. Made it with waaay too much sugar but decided to drink it anyway. It was a hot day and ran out to play. Long story short the heat and oversaturation with sugar, I violently threw up.
To this day i cannot touch anything grape flavored.
Had this experience with scallops and mushrooms when I was young. Now I love them. Took about 20 years to enjoy them again. Love bacon wrapped scallops on the grill again.
This doesn’t work with pizza. I’ve had bad experiences with pizza before but it never turned me off to it. On the contrary, I had to immediately go out and find good pizza to offset it. Now, I did have a horrible experience with Coleslaw as a kid and have never eaten it again.
I almost barfed on the first bite. It was horrible. But I didn't want to insult his mother and tried to tell him how good it was. But... didn't work; I never got another invite, lol.
I spent 3 days in hell from a fast food joint salad, but I still eat salad, just never in a place like that.
Jagermeister
The day I found out my branch assignment I went out with a buddy and got drunk on cheap Scotch. But, after about 20 years I discovered I like the stuff - the good stuff, that is.
There is a condition that is caused by shellfish and alcohol. Not everyone has it but eating shellfish together with alcohol can cause a toxic histamine reaction
With My first problem with mussels issues I did have a drink at a restaurant.
A decade later when I decided to try it again I didnt have a drink but had the same reaction. Pretty sure it wasn’t a mental issue. So something lingered in my body. Or I guess I got bad mussels again. I bought the frozen kind.
Not touching mussels again
I eat just about anything, left on the stove, reheated, repeat. Sometimes it starts tasting cheesy. Only times I’ve gotten sick is from eating an absurdly large amount of some things when I was a kid. Ten dozen ipswich steamers when I was 60 lb was one such event. There was once when I bolted down a pint of extremely fermented sour chocolate milk, before I tasted it. I wanted to throw up, but could not.
Anybody ever been a on a school bus (as a kid) and one kid throws up, then another, then five more, then a dozen more....?
Food poisoning is almost always psychological. People imagine they’re going to throw up, and then they throw up.
For many of us it is a specific alcoholic beverage.
It just doesn’t taste the same after you have it come up and out your nose!
I got food poisoning once from Campbell’s chunky soup. I have never touched that stuff again and never will. Man, was I sick. It was awful.
Bad tequila - bad naughty tequila
Seafood
Fishy smell is a gut killer
Peppermint Schnapps, 1980. More than one bottle. Or two. Shudder.
I got food poisoning twice in the early 80s from Pizza Hut pizza. I won’t eat the stuff to this day.
I don’t like rapini, a bitter green vegetable similar to broccoli, or yucas, aka manioc, a vegetable widely used in Caribbean and South American cuisine, but I will eat them because they are very nutritious.
I’ve stopped reading this post. I absolutely like everything that was mentioned, and don’t want any bad thoughts in my mind next time I eat one of them.
(And I make a great curry— or did when I taught Chinese Cooking!)
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