Does anyone like to eat things just for the texture

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I have eaten 4 to 8 lbs of raw or toasted cashew nut in one day just for the texture. Im thinking it is some type of stimming I

do. I have grinded down my teeth doing things like this. Like m&m's eaten pounds and pounds. M&M are crunchy and over

time it acts like sand paper on the teeth. So do other Aspie/Autistic do this too?

'Taste' is a much more than the taste buds. It uses so many different receptor and inputs.

I used to eat vast qualities of simualar food for the same reason

I love different textures. Give something a different texture and it will change the overal experience.

Did you know our perception of crunchiness is based on our jaw vibrating and sound? Our brains actually count the number of vibrations tot tell us how crunchy it is. So the more inclusions are in the food and the greater the sound the more crunchy it is. You can try do an experiment eating a something crunchy in front of a mic that amplified, with head phone. It 'tastes' cruncher.

Cool!

I don't know if you can get but the Heston Blumenthal programs Kitchen Chemistry (Discovery Science) and In Search of Perfection (BBC) are really interesting.

He collaborates with this guy a lot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Barham

the is the wiki on heston:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heston_Blumenthal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_gastronomy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste

Very neat.

I've eaten foods for the taste.

Yes my whole eating problem is texture, has to be the right texture, or I won't eat it, its weird

I won't eat gummy things like raisins. I don't like most caramel either or fudge. Too much stcky, coating my teeth.

I love popcorn's texture.

It wasn't me, but I had a girlfriend who'd eat folic acid tablets (walgreen's specifically) at a rate of a bottle a day. They tasted nasty, but she liked the sand-like texture of the powder they broke down into.

Don't want to eat too many of those!

I knew a girl who was addicted to lemsip. All it is powdered paracetamol with flavour. Maybe she liked the bitter taste of the paracetamol with a hot lemony taste.

Anyone put things into their mouth when they were younger? My sister said I used to eat mud.

Once I was at somebody’s house and I saw this pink pill in their key tray. I impulsively put in my mouth. It had a sweetish coating but the inside was absolutely foul so I spat it out. I thought it was rat poison or something.

My brother and I used to put salt in a bowl and snack on it when we were kids.

Funny enough texture is why I DON'T eat a lot of foods.
Like jelly. I can't stand the texture. Jam with bits in it, custard, bananas, Cheese Cake...
Loads of things that the texture just totally makes me retch at. Taste doesn't matter in the slightest.
I could give you a list 3 pages long but it would bore you.

me too, anything slimy eurgh! kidney beans don't get me started!

I'm like this with bread. There is one type of bread i can eat (weight watchers malted danish)but it has to be a week old (it doesn't go mouldy because it's packed full of preservatives, just dry) Any other bread just makes me retch. I can't even look at someone else eating a sandwich without retching. Bananas too but to a lesser extent. People often get offended if I say 'Sorry but I can't look at you while you eat that sandwich. I'm not ignoring you, i'm just looking away'. They think I'm criticising their eating manners no matter how much I explain that it's not the way they're eating, it's WHAT they're eating.

I eat anything really within reason obviously