Food textures

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Some interesting posts here.

Vegetables like okra & asparagus, I can't eat because the sliminess of it is far too creepy. I can't eat most seafoods because of their textures. I tried explaining to a "friend" once that the reason I don't like shrimp is the "texture" & not the taste, & she just thought I was crazy because I guess she doesn't notice the textures in food.

I hate chewy cookies. I like cookies that are harder.

Can't eat anything with chunks, so all my sauces and soups have to be blitz. Can't stand peppers, tis like chewing a cats tongue, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers are far to slimmy, biting into a baby cob sends shivers down my spine. I'm really funny with meat, if I chew and find any grissle the whole meal ends up in the bin.

I can't mix the foods on my plate, things have to be eaten in a certain order, I never mix textures.

I'm very sensitive to this as well. (I used to be even worse.) I can't eat mushrooms, most squash, raw onions, or (usually) squash. I also have trouble with mashed potatoes. This is a big problem, because I'm a vegetarian, and the stock vegetarian dish at a lot of restaurants often is mushroom-based.

I hate fat and oily food, cooked forest mushrooms like snots, dry food, white rolls like styrofoam.

I prefer brei with more water and tasteless for NTs.

I hate oatmeal cuz it's a combo of slimy and chunky.
I can't stand cream o' wheat (gluey and gritty)
I don't like bananas (texture combined with lame flavor)
can't stand old woody peas
I HATE brown bread (texture plus bad flavor)
I despise brown rice (texture and bitterness)

I like the texture of banana. When I was young I used to like the feel of banana on my lips and chin. My dad would tell me off for rubbing banana on my face while I was eating it

I like zucchini for the way it oozes lots of juice into your mouth when you bite it.
I don't like the feel of meat in my mouth, it feels too rough and I always think about the poor defenseless animal that was probably treated poorly and died in a slaughterhouse just for me to eat it
Fish is repulsive, I can't stand the smell of it, so I'd never eat it. I can't go into the fish shop because I feel sick at the smell.
Mushrooms are another thing I can't eat. They just taste yuck to me.

Slimy food is the worst ever - but I mean really slimy, like okra. Otherwise I love vegetables. I also prefer a consistent texture in most things like peanut butter needs to be completely creamy - no chunks.

I'm not a picky eater at all but I've always had a problem with food that has "bumps" in it. Yogurt that has fruit chunks is a perfect example. Brownies with nuts is another. Onions on my cheeseburger is yet another. It should be noted that I have no problem with fruit, nuts or onions. Only when they're mixed in with foods supposed to be totally soft.

I cannot eat any raw plant matter, except for REALLY thin apple slices, and it will take me over 2 hours to eat one apple that way. Biting into a piece of lettuce or something elicits a very strong gag reflex, and makes me unable to continue eating for quite awhile. I guess it's like if most people smelled vomit while they were eating? Or if someone told a totally gross medical story? (Neither of these effect me.)

Sometimes I do have a problem with "unexpected" changes...like a poster mentioned yogurt with fruit pieces in it. I'll pick out the fruit and eat it separately. I also segregate mixed vegetables and things from soup or stew. As opposed to just taking a bite of stew, I will spear 2 potatoes and eat them, then pick out a dozen or so peas to eat, then take a bite of meat. It's never a simple mouthful.

The flavor of carrots reminds me of earwax (don't ask), and I find them repulsive unless they've been cooked for hours, like in a soup or stew or alongside a roast.

I can eat pretty much anything else though. Except...lately Kashi toaster waffles have gagged me. I'm not sure if it's the taste or texture, but I threw the rest of the package away.

I have issues with substances that are slimy and mushy way--some fruit gets this way at a certain stage of ripening (bananas, nectarines, mangoes, peaches, apricots) and I can't eat them at or past this stage.

A lot of dressings and sauces are also slimy+mushy or slimy+pasty and I won't touch them. Pudding, custard, and yogurt are a bit like this too and I can only handle eating small amounts of them before I start to gag and feel nauseous.

I have problems with fine grainy textures--like soft apples (I describe as akin to the sensation of eating raw cornmeal or flour.....it's revolting).

The worst food texture is "stringy"--I take the stringy bits out of eggs before I cook them, I carefully de-string green beans, oranges, and bananas before I'll eat them, and I think celery is generally disgusting.

I have difficulty eating crispy food. I don't care much for biscuits, cookies, chips, fresh apples and such. I don't mind the taste, but the texture is uncomfortable. Changing the texture of the food usually helps me eat it. I like the taste of apples, but I must grate them before I can eat them. I can eat chips if I leave the bag open for a day or two first, as that softens them up. I can eat biscuits, cookies and such if I drink lots of fluid with them and let them melt in the fluid in my mouth and crush them with my tongue rather than chew them.