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I used to hate mushrooms. I used think the texture was funny and the taste was despicable. At one point I tried them with a specific dish I liked. My mother cooked them along side onions and garlic so that the caramelized juices would cover the mushrooms. It was at that point that I realized the potential within the mushroom kingdom.

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As a young boy, I really was the stereotypical kid that hated vegetables, and, to be honest, I still sort of do. However, it wouldn't be until I reached the age of 14 or 15 that I absolutely fell in love with vegetables with my favorites being broccoli and spinach. Now, of course, I did eat vegetables as a kid, but not enough as I do nowadays. Most of my homecooked meals, if applicable, will always include broccoli or spinach (typically steamed broccoli). At a steakhouse I go to with my family, we get sides and 15 year old me would go straight to French fries, but now I go for their steamed broccoli. Honestly, I hate how stubborn I was about eating my greens as a young kid, but now I can definitely make up for it with my current broccoli and spinach addiction.

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When I was younger I was extremely picky with the things I ate, and never really liked many things. As I grew up I did grow out of most of that phase but I still remain a little picky.

One specific food that I remember having a major disliking to was onions, my mom would make sautéed chicken with onions and peppers, and I remember watching her take out the onions on my plate and placing them on her own before calling my family to dinner. I now enjoy onions and even put them on sandwiches and leave them on my sautéed chicken. Although, sometimes my mom forgets I like them now and still takes them.

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My tastes have changed drastically  since becoming more knowledgeable of my dietary choices and of certain health risks sometimes. I have always loved vegetable but growing up I was an avid meat eater and then when I discovered how processed American meat is, the taste was not worth it anymore.  A bit of fear became my newly acquired taste. 

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My tastes have changed drastically  since becoming more knowledgeable of my dietary choices and of certain health risks sometimes. I have always loved vegetable but growing up I was an avid meat eater and then when I discovered how processed American meat is, the taste was not worth it anymore.  A bit of fear became my newly acquired taste. 

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When I was younger I had a strong dislike for dried fish aka shut, because of its smell. And my mom would cook it and it would make the whole house smell like death fish. But as I grew older I began to appreciate the taste of dried fish. Dried fish tastes amazing with rice and curry.

A food that I used to enjoy alot but now I dont enjoy as much is chocolate. As I have grown older I feel that eating chocolate does not have the same feeling that it used to have when I was younger. I used to be able to 3-4 chocolate bars in a day but nowadays after half of a bar or even one bite I don't feel like eating it anymore.

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when I was younger I dislikes molasses and tomatoes. I really didn't like the consistency of and the color really threw me off. tomatoes really weren't my favors to begin with and I really disliked the taste. over the years I grew to have a more mature relationship with these 2 foods because of the frequency in when had to eat them. I used to spit out molasses when giving it to eat and always pick out the tomatoes out of my food when they were present but now I eat it like its nothing if I have to, thought I defiantly don't go out of my way to eat them if they happen to be there its no big problem for me any more .

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When I was younger I really disliked sun-dried tomatoes. I know that is a little random, but my parents would put them on everything. I remember hating the smell and not even being able to go near them. About a year ago I tasted a pizza with sun-dried tomatoes and loved it! Since then I have literally been putting them on everything. I don't think there are any foods I really walked away from. I try making healthier choices now and stay away from gluten because I have celiac.

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When I was younger, I disliked both honey and black seed oil. The smell of honey and the taste of the black seed oil made me hate them both. As I grew up, I learned about the benefits of both products and began to dislike it less. I love honey now but I dislike black seed oil less than I used to. The foods I walked away from were donuts and okra. I don't like how okra tastes and the texture is not great. For me, I have not had a donut in a long time and I don't crave as much as I used to as a kid.

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When I was younger, I used to dislike the taste of celery. But, as I grew older and became passionate about the fitness journey, my fitness coach recommended I include green juices as part of my diet plan. And although it was hard at the beginning to have that strong taste of celery in my drinks, gradually, I began to like it, especially when I combined it with fruits and other vegetables I like.

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When I was younger I hated the taste of mustard. I am an extremely picky eater and typically that's based on texture. I didn't like mustard because it smelled weird and tasted weird. One day, I ordered a hot dog and it accidentally had mustard on it. My mom told me I had to eat it, and it turns out I actually liked mustard now. Now I eat it with hot dogs every time.
One food I walked away from was Mcdonalds. I used to eat it every day because it was convenient. One day the flavors felt stale and dry, and I also started breaking out and getting bloated. When I stopped eating Mcdonalds all those symptoms went away.

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For the longest time, I refused to try any sushi with fish because the raw fish really grossed me out conceptually. Eventually I was at a nice dinner and my friend convinced me to give it a shot and now I love sushi.
A food that I've walked away from is milk chocolate. I used to love it but I now find it way too sweet for me.

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When I was younger I remember sipping my dad's coffee and spitting it out immediately because I thought it was disgusting. I never understood why he kept saying I would grow to enjoy coffee, but here I am, an adult who cannot go a day without drinking iced coffee. I also grew up drinking milk, but as an adult I switched to oat milk because cows milk grosses me out. I grew up in a meat-eating family and as a teenager I became a vegetarian and have stuck with it for eight years now! I will never go back to meat and I am very lucky that there are many meat-free options out there!

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I learned to love dark chocolate. When I was younger, I didn't like the bitterness of organic cacao and preferred sweeter chocolate (chocolate with added sugar and milk). As I've gotten older, I began to prefer desserts with more simple and easy to digest ingredients. Especially because of my lactose intolerance to cow milk. A food I walked away from is jello because I dislike the texture. I just can't deal with food that jiggles.

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When I was younger, I really disliked honey, my parents used it in a lot of meals and even put it on pancakes.I didnt like the flavor nor the fact that it was really thick and sticky. I enjoy honey now especially in teas when im sick.

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My tastes have changed significantly since moving to New York. Being originally from North Carolina I didn't have many real salad options or vegetables that weren't fried. I love green juice now and salad's. As a whole my body feels much lighter. 

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My tastes have changed significantly since moving to New York. Being originally from North Carolina I didn't have many real salad options or vegetables that weren't fried. I love green juice now and salad's. As a whole my body feels much lighter. 

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As a kid my parents would buy vegi pizza and it had mushrooms on it. I always hated the olives and mushrooms, and would pick them out everytime. But as I grew older I don’t know how but I Ended up loving mushrooms. Same thing with onions, the texture always made me gag, and as I grew older that hate for onions went away, so overall it's just funny how our tastes evolve as we grow older.

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What I’ve learned to love: This may be ironic, but for the majority of my childhood, I pledged to only eat vegetarian (plus occasionally chicken products and meals). This stemmed from slaughterhouse videos that I watched on YouTube that miraculously popped out of nowhere. However, after years of abstaining from meat (most notably beef), I now have grown a desire for steaks, meals with beef, and other meats I didn’t eat for a period of time. This carnivorous  desire had started maybe five or so years ago. (PS, I do NOT eat fish as well, but I do enjoy crab and lobster, or fried/sautéed shrimp.)

What I’ve grown to hate: In fact, I’ve probably always hated salad. I wouldn’t doubt that I was fed salads at a younger age, but I can attest to the fact I’ve never eaten a full salad for the majority of my lifetime. I can eat cooked vegetables, or maybe even fruit salads, but I have never stomached the the idea of raw tossed vegetables smothered with greasy, strong-smelling dressing. This is a habitual issue, meaning my diet has habituated to not allowing salad since a very young age. I don’t think, quite frankly, I’ll ever eat a salad. Personal opinion.

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As a child, I avoided a lot of vegetables and mushrooms. I was not too fond of the taste of vegetables and the texture of mushrooms made me uncomfortable. I would always refuse to eat any dishes with them but as I got older my taste completely changed. I love eating dishes with mushrooms and vegetables in general. I always wonder why that happens and have talked about this topic to so many people, which always fascinates me.

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I have adhd and many symptoms are a result of dopamine "deficiency". I use hobbies and food to "get" dopamine. This usually means that I'll have a favorite food for a period of time that I eat everyday and love. However, at a certain point it stops tasting like dopamine and I have to find a new one. Recently I was really into Swiss miss hot chocolate and now I'm into lime flavored seltzer. I won't be able to drink hot cocoa for a while but I do still like it and I'm excited for the point when it starts to taste good again.

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Growing up I use to hate fish, I never liked eating it. Now that I am older, I don't really care for it now but i know it has a few health benefits so I force myself to eat it. The taste hasn't changed for me, but more so the mentality behind eating it.

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When I was younger I don't recall eating okra, most likely because of its slimy texture. I also did not eat rice and beans,  due to me just being picky. I also always ran away from mushrooms but I now look at it as a substitute for meat and I love when my mom puts it in her soups.

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As a child, I grew up not liking Sweet Plantains. There was something about the unique sweet taste that made me spit it out in disgust. However, as I aged, I realized that was one of the common side dishes in caribbean food culture. I decided to give it another chance, in which overtime I grew to like it. Nowadays, plantains is a must with most meals. I can either eat it boiled or fried.

On the other hand, when I was younger I had a big craving for Hershey's Cookie and Cream Chocolate bar. I used to eat at least one bar a week. Currently, I barely eat any candy at all as I realized its not good for my health longterm. Now, I only eat candy when I have that in the moment craving which is rare.

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Growing up I had a tendency to avoid pasta and spaghetti, they were mostly provided to me during school lunch when I was first exposed to this dish. Having bad memories of this dish during my younger day, fortunately, didn't translate to adulthood. I found out not all pasta and spaghetti are the ones they served in school, as there are different versions of it. Not surprisingly it is actually one of my favorite go-to food now. For food, I learned to walk away definitely is a honey bun, personally feel like it doesn't taste the same as it did in high school.

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I changed my eating habits because i care about myself and i wish to live as long as possible in a good shape. I hope each of you do the same.

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When I was around the age of 10 I really disliked the taste of broccoli. I found it very bitter and it did not satisfy my taste buds. Some how eventually, my taste buds grew to liking broccoli. Now I eat it steamed, sautéed, and roasting. I'm glad I grew to liking it since there are many benefits to including it in your diet. One type of food I've walked away from is, Brussel sprouts. I find them super gross and they smell weird. However, I do eat cabbage, aren’t Brussels sprouts in the same family class as they are.
Either way to this day, I still do not find it appealing to eat.

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When I was little, I had a strong dislike for olives mushrooms and okra. I didn’t like okra because it is very slimes and had a mucous texture. I didn’t like olives because they have this bitter taste to me and I just didn’t like mushrooms because it was weird to me to eat fungus. Now that I have grown up I love all of them. I have always loved vegetables and was never very picky so this came as no surprise. One food I used to love but walked away from is pork. I used to love it but have stayed away from it because the texture grosses me out and when I think about what pigs eat and just how salty and fattening it really is it also grosses me out.

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When I was little, just like any other kids, I hate vegetables. I would eat like very few pieces of greens and my mom would always force me to eat it. Now that I have grown up, I know the benefits of vegetables and know to consume high fibers in my diet to balance my meal. Also, when I was about 10, I would not drink water because there is no taste in it, I only drink milk, juice, and soda everyday for a long time. I have gained weight from consuming a lot of sugar from the drinks. After taking classes about how bad soda and other drinks are, I started to drink more and more water to lose weight. Now I drink soda every once a while, but drink way more water now to keep my body healthy and hydrated.

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For me when I was younger I would put ketchup on everything eating it with every single meal no matter what. I can't remember exactly why, when it changed, or what it was but now I can't stand it. Sometimes even smelling ketchup will make me gag to the point where I start to feel bad if there's some around eating it. The only explanation I could think of is that I over exposed myself to it so much to a point when I was younger that now my tastebuds reject it on instinct. I've asked my friends or family if they've ever had a change of taste similar to this and my brother has had the opposite experience. He hated ketchup when we were younger making fun of me for how much I ate it but now he's come to enjoy it almost just as much.

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As a child, I had a strong dislike for onions and avocadoes because of the "slimey" texture , and I often picked it out of the meals my mother made. Strangely enough, during that period I loved curry chicken, and ate it several times a week. Now I love onions, and I include avocados in every meal because I realized that it makes the food taste much better. However, I grew an aversion to curry chicken, and I can't stand the smell of it.

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I was very conservative when I grew up. I did not want to explore new food but my parents kept trying and it helped me latter in the adulthood to explore more and more food items and different cultures and their food. Traveling to different countries helped a lot too.

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I loved sushi pretty much all of my life but in the past year or two i haven't really had a taste for it. Not sure why but it's definitely no longer one of my favorites. I eat a lot more vegetables than i did when i was younger, it started with an effort to eat healthier but i eventually just acquired a taste for them.

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When I was younger, I disliked eggplants. I did not like the texture or taste of eggplants so I avoided it whenever my mom made it, which was pretty much all of the time. However as I grew older, I began to like eggplants. I guess it also depends on how it was made because I also hated spinach as a kid but then my mom made spinach in a different way than I used to have and now I like spinach.

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I grew up in Kyoto, Japan. I did not like the carrot that was produced in Kyoto. There are traditional vegetables called Kyoyasai. These vegetables are bitter and earthy. The kyo-carrot is dark red almost brown and tastes like burdock. I did not like any dish my mom made with kyo-carrots. When I came to New York, I was surprised that the carrot is vivid orange color and sweet. You can eat them fresh. I never ate fresh carrots when I was small. However, I tried fresh carrot with hummus dip and it was fresh, sweet, and savory I immediately loved it. My favorite food from childhood is miso soup. Especially when my mom made miso soup, smells and steam came from the kitchen. It reminds me of dinner time. We had miso soup every dinner. I want to have miso and soy sauce taste once a day or every other day, even though I have lived in NY for many years.

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I'm not a very picky person so there were few foods that I wouldn't try or disliked. But some I can recall are tomatoes, olives, kidneys/livers (meat), and donuts. I think the reasons came down to an almost bitter taste, unfamiliarity, and the concepts behind the foods. Like knowing kidneys excrete waste and that livers deal with toxic substances, along with the taste, was a big no for me. With olives, I've never had them, the form was always odd to me and the appearance a bit spooky. Lastly, with the ever so beloved donuts, it's the idea I can't get behind and which prompts me to avoid them -- frosting on bread?? But as time went on and as I saw tomatoes appear more frequently in what I ate like soups, pizza, pasta, etc. it snuck into my diet and became one of my favorite foods (supplementally, not on it's own).

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about a year ago i was obsessed with chip ahoy and didnt eat anything else. I have an obsessive personality so i moved on to gushers now but before i was only eating cookies. no rice no meat no other carbs just that. i could tell my body wasnt liking it cause my hair got brittle and once i started eating better so did my hair. i only stopped eating it because i noticed a difference in my body. I didnt like them before so I dont know why i was eating them anyways

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More than twenty years ago, I was very interested in eating a lot of oil in my meals. Our family diet was even based on animal fat.  We liked to immolate sheep or oxen with fat. I decided to abstain for this kind of high-fat meal. Also the local oil used was also rich in cholesterol which also increased the number of patients with high blood pressure. The consequences of a diet rich in fat have built me up more to take care of my health.

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When i was younger i was a big diet soda drinker. When i started to cut back on soda and drink more water, i noticed that the soda had an artificial taste and also if i was drinking it from a can -that it tasted very "tiny" Now I rarely drink it and when i do have a sip it really taste to artificial to drink.-Elle H

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I have completely changed my diet and I substitute a lot of the food I eat. I try adding more fruits and vegetables to my diet. Instead of juice I could drink something more natural like coconut water. Or replace soda with seltzer, add lemon or any fruit like berries in water to add some flavor. It does make a difference. I have also learned that  to much fruits is bad because it is adding extra sugar to your diet. Healthy food is not always tasty so to increase more veges in my diet, when i cook rice i would add shredded carrots to it so its seems like more. I love cooking rice with spinach. zucchini is a great substitution for spaghetti and its always best to make your won pasta sauce.

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As I've gotten older, I've learned to really love salads! We always had some kind of a salad growing up but it definitely felt like a chore trying to finish it. I think I always had this idea that a salad had to be plain and simple and just a side dish. These days, my main portion is usually a big bowl of mixed greens with some kind of protein, finely chopped veggies, a mixture of nuts and seeds, some protein, and usually some cooked rice-- and a yummy dressing. I love the combo of fresh produce with something cooked and warm.

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As a child, I obsessed of meat, like steak, pork, etc. But as I growing up, I was less likely to have meat, it was weird for me because I am not a vegetarian. But I just don't like the how it feels in the mouth, so I was avoid to have them in daily life. And my mother was always force me to have seafood. She thinks eating seafood will make my smarter (still don't know how she get that). And I HATE oyster so much because it smells and taste so bad. Few days ago me and my friends went to have seafood hotpot and thats my second time tried oyster, its strange that I love it! It tastes not that bad and pretty good !

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Growing up we had little access to seafood, so I didn't have much of a taste for it.  But as I've gotten older and circumstances have changed, I find I like it more and more.  It is satisfying in a more that other proteins are not for me.

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Growing up, a honey bun and those pack of 2 cupcakes for a $1 were my go to for lunch because they were so good. Now i cannot stand them because they're two sweet for my taste. Gives me a headache >_<

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My taste has definitely changed from when I was a child. I used to not like kimchi because of its smell especially because it's fermented. But now I love it with every Korean food that I eat like Korean barbecue with bulgogi or even sushi. It just makes it more tasty.

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I use to love drinking Pepsi as a child now I can’t stand the smell and taste of Pepsi, and also the sensation makes me wanna throw up.

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When i was young my mom (who was a working mother) would always try to prepare a "healthy" dinner for us.  Because of time constraints we usually had a frozen vegetable.  For me this was absolutely disgusting!  Nothing worse than frozen peas and onions!  I don't know if this is still a thing (because i am a lot older than i think everyone in the class) but when i was young we couldn't leave the table until we ate all our veggies and this was torture to eat frozen veggies.  It wasn't until i was able to learn to make fresh veggies (roast, steam, etc) with fresh herbs that i really appreciated their taste and value.  I recently tried a package of frozen veggies and i still don't think they cook or taste as well as fresh-would love to know if someone has success cooking frozen veggies and what is the secret to preparing them

Elle H

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I stopped drinking soads for good. I stopped liking pizza and all Italian food in general. I only like sushi currently I guess. I don't eat pastry as much anymore.

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As a child I ate almost anything (and still do actually! well, except for olives!! I "want" to like olives, I keep trying them hoping my tastes will change, but it hasn't happened yet) but one thing I noticed as an adult is I go through phases of taste changing. I'll go months wanting and eating things (take bananas for example) and then suddenly, the smell or sight of a banana makes me want to gag. I wonder if it's some kind of vitamin deficiency making me crave the bananas (or too much of a vitamin that's making me despise it). This happens often to me. Can anyone else relate?

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As a child I used to absolutely love eating tomatoes, you would walk into the kitchen and find the fridge open where you would find me eating tomatoes as if they were apples, every single tomato used to have a bite I would go for all of them not just one. However as I started growing up more I started despising the taste of tomatoes, for some reason I didn’t like that Acid taste it has. Until this day I still never eat tomatoes anymore, personally for me I’m a very texture type of person so if I do not like the texture of something I feel it’s very hard for me to eat it, to add on something very hard for me that I never saw myself doing in the future was letting go of red meat but as i got older the taste of it was no longer good. As for some thing that I learned to love, well there are many things; as I grew up being a very picky eater but I now really enjoy eating beans. I absolutely hated eating beans, I hated it so much that in order for me to get the nutrients of the beans my mother used to compensate me with a plate of white rice after. I knew that if I ate the beans at first I would eventually only eat my white rice.

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I don't ever remember actually enjoying the taste of coffee in my childhood. It baffled me why anyone would enjoy something so bitter first thing in the morning. The first time I tried it, all I could focus on was the sour aftertaste and the unpleasant taste it left in my mouth. During high school however, I started drinking coffee out of necessity in efforts to stay awake longer and study. I didn't particularly care about the taste at all, as long as it did its job. Eventually, I got used to the bitter flavor and experimented a lot more with the flavors I added (chocolate, sometimes hazelnut, or something fruity) and started to actually enjoy the subtle bitterness of coffee. Nowadays I'm drinking (and actually enjoying) it everyday. It's super interesting to me how adding in different flavors to compliment a certain food can change it's taste (and your opinion) of it completely- alongside other flavors, the bitterness of a certain food or drink may not be so bad. In terms of walking away from a food, I'd definitely say it was cake (I'd have some at least twice every week!). I was massively addicted to cake when I was younger, and it showed on my weight. Walking away was no easy task, but ever since I cut  cake out of my diet I've lost weight and felt more motivated to exercise frequently.

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Growing up my mother had always made a traditional dish called waraq dawali. As a child, I use to love it but overtime I started to dislike it more and more. The sheer amount of times she would make it in a week would be enough to make anyone sick of it, at least for me it did. However, in the past few months I have slowly started to learn to like it again and enjoy the taste.

A food I had walked away from is definitely cooked fish. I use to adore cooked salmon and shellfish but over the past few years I shy away even more and more from it. Now I am at the point where I will only eat raw fish. The texture, taste, and overall feel of cooked fish is just so inferior to raw fish that I cannot stand it anymore.

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Growing up I used to eat many different things, however two things that I always despised but recently started to like more are tomatoes and cauliflower. Ever since I was a little kid my parents would always try to make me eat these two things so I can like them more but I would never grow into them. However during quarantine, I started cooking more and making more sandwiches and one day decided to try tomatoes on it and it just clicked and ever since I always include slices tomatoes on all my sandwiches.

I haven't walked away from any foods per say but I have completely stopped drinking soda and that has been going on for three years now and it was mainly due to many family having a history of diabetes and just overall to give myself a better and healthier life.

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Before the pandemic my eating habits were not particularly healthy, and I mostly ate fried foods. At the beginning of lock down I needed to learn to cook more because I couldn't go out for food and I took the opportunity to introduce more vegetables into my diet. One food in particular I never liked until then was broccoli. I didn't like the fact that it had multiple textures or the taste. When I learned to cook myself, I was able to find ways to prepare broccoli that I really liked. I still love fried foods and haven't walked away from them, but I eat them far less frequently and they no longer comprise the bulk of my diet.

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I used to like the taste of avocados when I was little, but then slowly out of nowhere I started to reject it's taste. I stopped eating it for years. Thinking it had a too buttery or oily taste. I would try to avoid them in all my meals. However, recently I've been really enjoying avocados toasts. When it's paired with other delicious ingredients like tomatoes, seasoning, bread, other vegetables and etc. I still try to avoid avocados most of the time, but since I like avocado toasts maybe my tastes are changing back.

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Over the years, I have discovered a love for my family's Dominican cuisine. I can't say I've disliked food from culture since I grew up eating it. I have pride in sharing foods to friends who are unfamiliar and I try to eat new foods when I can. Some foods are strictly for special occasions or can only be made by a particular person (it's just not the same). A food I had a hard time liking was the usage of liver in dishes like higado guisado, but as I got older I fell in love with it.

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There were quite a few foods that I wouldn't even look at as a child. I was mostly never picky, but I would not eat bread or olives. We often have lunches at work, and when we don't we all bring something to share and make a meal. I got used to eating bread there as we often made sandwiches, it's easy and quick before we get back to work. We also often make salads and everyone there LOVES olives. The more I was forced to try these foods, I actually started to really enjoy and even crave for them at times.

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One thing I reject as a child was carrots. I don't like it no matter which way my mom cooks it. It tasted awful to me and I didn't know how to express my dislike for it even though I knew it was full of nutrients. However about 4 years ago, my eye doctor told me I had eye problems. I asked her if there was any food that was good for my eyes and she told me that carrots help protect eyes, so I started to try eating carrots. Slowly, I started to get used to the taste and fell in love with it. Carrot juice with a little honey is my favorite flavor.
Since I was 15 years old, I stopped eating any meat or seafood for health reasons. I was overweight as a child and my doctor recommended a controlled diet. I had to give up my favorite fried chicken and shrimp for the sake of my health. In order to maintain the protein and vitamins that my body needs, I get my nutrients from different vegetables and nuts, others.

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Growing up I used to hate leafy greens, like kale and spinach. I was exposed to a lot of pop culture messages about how kids hated greens, and so I avoided them as well. However, as I got older, I met other people my age who loved greens--and so I decided to give it a better shot and now I'm no longer averse to green leafy vegetables. I love spinach and kale smoothies!

As a kid, I used to eat a lot of processed meat such as deli meats and hot dogs. However, I think as years went on, I learned about how unhealthy they are. So now, I stay away from those kinds of foods. I don't find them particularly enjoyable anymore either.

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As a child, I couldn't tolerate eating green peas in any form (fresh, frozen, or canned) and would gag on them because my revulsion was so intense. Biting into the skin for the inside to gush into my mouth was a tactile turn-off and the taste was gross. However, as an adult I've come to enjoy green peas. They are absolutely the best when picked fresh from my garden. I find it delightful to harvest them from the vines, shell them, and add them to a dish the very same day. Fresh peas are sweeter than frozen or canned and don't have the same texture which makes them more palatable.
I used to enjoy mushrooms a lot but have lost my taste for them in recent years. I can still eat them raw in salads (enjoy them in fresh spinach salad) but the slimy texture of cooked mushrooms is unappealing now and I find that cooking mushrooms often releases a flavor much like soil.

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One thing I used to despise as a child was olivye. This salad comes from a Ukrainian background and it is a very popular dish used in every occasion. It is made with boiled potatoes, carrots, eggs, pickles, chicken, peas, and it is mixed together with mayonnaise. I would always look at this dish with side eyes and say no if someone offered it to me, but lately my parents have been making it more often for dinner and I decided to give it a go. Now I eat it every time; as long as it's fresh though.

However, the food that I used to enjoy but lately I've been disliking are potatoes. When I was little, I would always eat my meals with potatoes, but recently the texture and the taste of it just grosses me out. Unless it is indulged with a sauce or put in a salad like olivye, I will say no to potatoes. I know that they are healthy and lots of people recommend to eat potatoes, especially if they are mashed, but I'd rather stick to salads or other foods that can be as beneficial as potatoes.

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One thing I despise growing up was broccoli. The times I had them as a kid, I was very thrown off by the smell and taste. Through the years I got used to the taste and smell and started loving it. I now put it along with every meal, such as pasta, rice and salads etc. Even though I had to prime myself to enjoy both the smell and taste and has well the nutritional values it offers. I now truly enjoy eating broccoli.

What I learned to hate that I used to truly love is sweets and fast foods. I would eat it almost every day it was so good I couldn't stop is just so delicious, but it wasn't doing me any good not only was it unhealthy but was also making me sick. I have family history of diabetes, so I came into agreement with myself to change that lifestyle. I haven't touched any kind of sweets or fatty foods in over 6 years.

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As a kid, I would eat about anything. Growing up I began to despise common things like chocolate, candy, potatoes, and some other things. However one such food was oatmeal. As a kid I could never get over that weird gross texture. How its both liquid yet thick enough to chew, while oats made it grainy... even describing it makes it sound like such a weird meal but it isn't that bad. At least for myself. I am able to eat cups now with no issue. I still can't really do candy/chocolate, potatoes I am getting there.

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One thing that I grew up to despise eating was cilantro. Cilantro gave a minty and raw feeling to the food that I enjoyed and I hated how it changed the consistency on how that food tasted. As I grew older, cilantro was present in lots of Asian cuisines therefore, I could not escape the impossible. I had to prime myself to slowly enjoy the taste and the nutritional values it offers. Now I learned to enjoy cilantro on basically anything it comes with.

The food I walked away compared to as when I was a kid was fatty meats such as pork belly. As a kid, my parents would pick fatty meats and give it to me to eat and I gained lots of weight. I knew that eating an excess amount of fatty food would be bad for diet and health. I think overall it would have increased a risk on health as it will reflect on the internal and external manifestations of my food choices. As a solution, I tend to cut off the fatty parts and focus on the meats.

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I used to refuse to eat mushrooms because the first few times I had them as a kid, I was thrown off by their slimy texture. Now I love mushrooms and I always cook with them, adding them to pasta, or mixing them into cooked greens, or even using portobello mushrooms as burgers (instead of the beef patty.) I can't quite pin when I started to like mushrooms so much after not eating them for years, but now I am glad that I didn't keep that closed mind.

As for what I moved away from eating, I do not eat any meat anymore. I switched to a vegetarian diet 5 years ago, even though where I am from in Lithuania a lot of the culture is centered around meat. At a certain point I just realized how uncomfortable I was with the idea of eating meat and it started to have a heavy weight on my consciousness when I thought about the animals and the environment (as well as just my own health).

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One food I have learned to love but used to hate would be Ukrainian borscht. I always hated beets, to me they tasted like dirt. When I was forced to eat it at a family event I found myself asking for seconds. Somehow, whoever made the soup made it delicious and made it taste less of beats. With time, I ate the soup more often and grew to love beets. Another type of food that I learned to love is cucumber salad. It contains cucumbers, cream, and spices. Once again, I was forced to eat it at a family event. Whoever made it, made it taste delicious and from then on, I love cucumber salad.

A food that I have learned to hate that I used to love is butter. I used to butter all of my sandwiches with a very thin coat of butter. One day my mom made me a sandwich to school with an unbelievably thick coat of butter that overpowered the bread and ham. Ever since this incident I have never buttered my sandwiches and rarely eat butter unless it is used in cooking dishes and desserts.