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@Mrs. Jacks: I am one! I've done the blue dye test. I think it all goes together to make eating really difficult for me.

A little hope for all of you worried about raising a picky child - my daughter is ABSOLUTELY not like me. My husband and I have worked really hard to expose her to a wide variety of food, and she likes just about all of it. She doesn't have any of the pickiness that I had since birth. Now, I fully expect her to do the usual toddler/child food stuff, and I don't think she'll always be so good about it, at every moment. But she absolutely seems to lack my taste issues.

I was a lot more sensitive to bitter tastes when I was younger. I threw up a little when we did the taste test in school for bitter (when you taste sweet, sour, etc). I guess I grew out of it because I'm not very picky now. I do have an eating style but if I'm a guest in someones house served family style I'll eat and try everything.

I did an eating study when LO was first born and they really stressed not filling kids plates and then forcing them to eat everything, that it builds bad habits and associations with foods.

@sarac: I didn't have ear infections but it seems likely I may have some autistic tendencies which cause my food issues. Or maybe a super taster I don't know.

I don't think there is anything edible that I don't like, and have been like that since I was little. We always ate lots of different foods and flavours growing up.

I wonder if there is any kind of medical procedure or help of some sort to help those who have major aversions to different kinds of tastes/textures etc -- I can just imagine that having those aversions would make social situations etc kind of stressful at times, and that is not fun

I was extremely picky as a child and I remember my parents trying to make me stay at the able until I finished, but I never would!

I eat everything now, not picky at all. There are several meals I refuse though. Anything with gravy, some cuts and types of meat: I'll eat any vegetable though!

No and no I will eat almost anything except cilantro. I CANNOT eat cilantro, I think I have that genetic predisposition to hate it!