Eat with someone with neofobia

If we were to classify fans to people in groups, we could say that there are two types of people: those. when they enter their usual cafe, test new things on the menu, and you always ask the same thing.

This trend is one of the areas to be examined by specialists that deal with neofobia food, a field that is providing valuable information on the eating habits of children and adolescents, and even differences in personality of the most monotonous at the table with respect to those more adventurous palate.

The aversion to new foods can be measured by the Food Neophobia Scale, developed by psychologists Patricia Pliner and Karen Hobden, in 1992 and consists of ten phrases that the subject must rank as one to seven is more or less agree what they said.

For example: "I am always trying new foods and different", "I am afraid to eat things that I have not eaten before" or "ethnic foods look too weird to eat." The neófobos food not only prove less new plates, but they get less pleasure to try them ... although they like.

This has led to the team of specialists such as Robert A. Frank, of the University of Cincinnati, USA, to determine that what they are looking really fans of all is to try to meet their continuing search for new developments in the field of food, as do all other fields of vetch.

It is not unusual for the group of neofílicos especially appreciate the spicy, meat and alcoholic beverages, while the supporters of neófobos are more casual platito of Swiss. Carried to an extreme, the neofobia food can cause serious damage to health.

Children and adolescents have been the subject of intensive investigations with a view to determining which factors influence preferences and rejection of their diet as a way of correcting any permanent disorder in their food.