Comprehensive List of Food Phobias
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What is Phobia?
According to Wikipedia, a phobia is defined as:
An irrational, persistent fear of certain situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject. When the fear is beyond one's control, or if the fear is interfering with daily life, then a diagnosis under one of the anxiety disorders can be made.
Up to 18% of Americans suffer from phobias, including 10-15% of all children. However, those that seek help have a high rate of remission. Successful treatment methods include Desensatization Therapy, Cognative Behavioral Therapy, and the use of certain antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications.
*Please note that phobias are not mere dislikes, but severe and paralyzing fear in response to the related trigger.
Food Phobias
Food phobias fall under the diagnostic category of "specific phobias," which are irrational fears triggered by a particular environmental stimulus. While particularly common among people diagnosed with eating disorders, food phobias can also be found in otherwise mentally healthy people.
Below I've complied a comprehensive list of food-specific phobias. As you read it, you may feel the urge to laugh, but please remember to be sensitive in the presense of someone who struggles with one of these disorders. It is easy to make light of someone's fear, especially of something as seemingly innocuous as a common edible, but for the phobic, the fear is very real, and sometimes crippling.
List of Food-Related Phobias
- Acerophobia- Fear of sourness
- Alektorophobia- Fear of chicken
- Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic
- Bacillophobia- Fear of microbes
- Bacteriophobia- Fear of bacteria
- Botanophobia- Fear of plants
- Carnophobia- Fear of meat
- Cibophobia- Fear of food
- Consecotaleophobia- Fear of chopsticks
- Coprastasophobia- Fear of constipation
- Defecaloesiphobia- Fear of painful bowels movements
- Deipnophobia- Fear of dining or dinner conversations
- Dipsophobia- Fear of drinking
- Emetophoia- Fear of vomiting
- Frigophobia- Fear of cold things
- Geumophobia- Fear of taste
- Hematophobia- Fear of blood
- Hydrophobia- Fear of water
- Hygrophobia- Fear of liquids
- Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish
- Iophobia- Fear of poison
- Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables
- Mageirocophobia- Fear of cooking
- Methyphobia- Fear of alcohol
- Mycophobia- Fear of mushrooms
- Necrophobia- Fear of dead things
- Obesophobia- Fear of gaining weight
- Oenophobia- Fear of wine
- Olfactophobia- Fear of smells
- Ornithophobia- Fear of birds
- Ostraconophobia- Fear of shellfish
- Osmophobia- Fear of odors
- Phagophobia- Fear of swallowing
- Pnigophobia- Fear of choking
- Rhypophobia- Fear of defecation
- Sitophobia- Fear of eating
- Teniophobia- Fear of tapeworms
- Thermophobia- Fear of hot things
- Toxophobia- Fear of being accidently poisoned
- Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating
- Verminophobia- Fear of germs
- Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow
- Xerophobia- Fear of dryness
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Getting Help
As with any mental illness, you should never self-diagnose. If you or someone you know may suffer from an eating disorder or phobia, please see your physician for a referral. You are not crazy. There is help. Psychotherapy and psychiatry are key pieces to recovery.
To read a complete list of specific phobias, including those not related to food, visit the Phobia List, or to learn more about eating disorders in particular, please check out the links below:
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Comments
It's true. Some people have an aversion to a particular food, but also there are categories of food (especially with eating disordered people) that might be "off limits," such as cold foods, foods with a certain texture, foods of a certain color, or the possible "consequences" of eating a certain food.
Great Hub! I had no idea people could fear so many foods and such. I'm glad this was never on a psych final exam for me!
Is there a phobia for foods with a certain texture? If so, what is it called?
I am not under or over wieght but I have a weird thing about food. I have never in my life tasted a hamburger, taco, ketschup. mustard, salad the list goes onand on I can not bring myself to taste new foods I mean that I have never had a pickle, steak, any kind of beef the only meat that I have ever had in my life is chicken and bacon (very crispy). I have a phobia of tasting things I never even tried bbq sauce untill I was 23 I am 25 I want to over come this has any one else ever heard of an adult like this. To realy give you the point here are a few more things that I have never ever tasted salad, shrimp, fish, dark meat chicken, any condements except for bbq sauce, tacos, burritos, tomatos, mayonase, olives, pickels, the list goes on and on I have a fear of food and food textures I want to bring myself to at least know the taste of things but I can't.
Crystalie,
Wow, I couldn't believe it when I read your comment. I thought I was the only person like that. People think I'm a picky eater, but it's not "being picky" because I can't even bring myself to taste new things and I've been this way my whole life. I had only tried chicken and it would only eat it if it was really dry, white meat. My husband forced me to try steak when we were dating and I'm now able to eat that but anytime there is a dinner party or lunch date, I really dread it, even though I want to be social. It was so embarassing going over to people's houses for dinner growing up because the focus always ended up being on me and what was I going to eat. I never tried any condiments until about 2 years ago and I tried ranch on my french fries. Now I love it, but I still have not tried ketchup or mustard or bbq sauce. I am now 24 and I have a 1 year old and I'm starting to feed her real food and I don't even know what to give her sometimes because my diet is so limited but I don't want her to be picky like me. Sometimes, I'll bring myself to taste things in social situations to try and look normal, but I feel like I want the ground to open up and swallow me. And then I either have to swallow it with water really fast before I taste it or feel the texture or else I'll start gagging, in which case I'm trying to force myself to swallow while gagging without anyone noticing! It's aweful! I've been so embarassed about it my whole life but its not just some thing that I can fix.
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spacebull says:
11 months ago
Really all kinds of things are included, this was intereting to read, thanks.