15 Unique Phobias Related to Food

People who suffer from this phobia are scared to eat food prepared by others and prefer to cook their own food. 

This phobia is not related to the fear of peanut butter but just the fear of it sticking to the roof of mouth causing one to choke. People with this phobia try to completely remove or eat small portions of peanut butter.

People suffering from this phobia can not eat nor smell garlic. They cannot stand near places where they use garlic nor eat any food containing garlic and other pungent smelling plants like shallots and chives. 

People with this phobia avoids fish at all cost. They do not eat at seafood restaurants, avoid swimming and walking on bridges and even avoids visiting aquariums. 

People who suffer from it can get a great anxiety in the presence of a shellfish or even when someone is eating it near them. This fear involves all types of shellfish such as shrimps, lobsters, crabs, and crayfish.

This phobia includes the fear of dining in clusters and conversation with bunch of people. They usually eat silently alone and if dining with others, they expect them to eat in silence as well. This phobia falls under the category of social phobias.

People fear to touch, smell or taste ketchup. They just don't like the texture and color as it may look similar to blood. 

The texture and the smell of cheese might give them a panic attack or cold sweat. It can be related to a traumatic memory or lactose intolerance. Turophobics may dislike one type of cheese over another, while others hate the whole diary food.

This fear can take different forms. Some people are afraid of cooking for a large group of people while others don’t have the power to even cook an egg. There are two reasons why people become Mageirophobic:

1. Fear concerning the cooking process
2. Fear concerning the outcomes of the cooking

It usually occurs because of a horrific event regarding choking or swallowing in an abnormal way or because of another food fear. They may feel anxious to swallow their food causing the throat muscles to constrict and feel a lump in their throat.

Those people would get irritated when someone chews gums; they hate chewing gum and its texture and its look and even the sound it makes.

It’s the fear of sour food. Phobic people would avoid anything sour from lemons, limes, oranges, pickles, sour candies, etc. They also suffer from anxiety and panic attack if they ever eat any sour food.

It’s an irrational fear of chopsticks. It can be linked to an event regarding the Asian culture, people, and food. People who suffer from this specific phobia cannot use chopsticks nor stay near them or watch someone use them; otherwise they’d get a panic attack or anxiety like any other phobia.

This includes the fear of seeing vomit, doing the action of vomiting or watching someone doing it either in public or private places. It’s common for those people to be underweight. To escape the situation, phobic people would do anything from starving or staying in pain or running away if it’s related to another being. Factors vary from case to case such as a traumatic experience with vomiting or childhood abuse.

It is a mix of both Neophobia and Cibophobia. It is more common in children than adults. Trying new food for some people seems like an exciting experience while for some others it’s terrifying; therefore they feel safe consuming just the regular food that they’ve always had.