The mystery of why some people hate raw tomatoes

39 点作者 monort超过 8 年前

19 条评论

zzalpha超过 8 年前

Alas, despite the title, and my hope that someone could finally help me justify my deep aversion to raw tomatoes, the article provides little enlightenment:Frankly, the scientific community has been sadly remiss in getting to the bottom of the mystery of why raw tomatoes make some of us gag, despite a few scattered flavor studies.Oh well. I guess it'll remain a mystery...

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yesimahuman超过 8 年前

I hated raw tomatoes, and then I had a proper heirloom tomato which made me realize it's actually that most mass-produced tomatoes are terrible

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danaliv超过 8 年前

I will never understand this attitude that everyone must like the same things, or that there must be justification for disliking something. And then of course you get the inevitable "oh well you just haven't had a real tomato/cilantro/Harry Potter/whatever" people, which adds a lovely dollop of hipster authenticity fetishism to the whole chauvinism shit sandwich. It's a matter of taste, people. Some people don't like the things you like and that's that. Deal with it. sunglasses descend onto face

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mmanfrin超过 8 年前

I love tomatoes -- but a majority of tomatoes that people get are in prepared food, and those are selected or engineered to be stiff, flavorless hunks of red plantflesh. You owe it to yourself to try off-the-vine heirloom tomatoes (with balsamic/olive oil/salt) if you don't like tomatoes; it is truly a different experience.

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double0jimb0超过 8 年前

It took me the better part of 35 years to determine I have an allergy to most nightshades (tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, ...) <a href="https://draxe.com/nightshade-vegetables/" rel="nofollow">https://draxe.com/nightshade-vegetables/</a>I think my body knew this before it registered consciously...I now chose this to explain my life-long aversion to tomatoes and eggplant. But french fries are still my kryptonite :(

dropit_sphere超过 8 年前

Well this was vindicating, and then frustrating (they still don't know why some people don't like raw tomatoes).

Udik超过 8 年前

There's a thing that annoys me in the article (and in the comments here). And it's this: which tomato you don't like? What do you mean by tomato, exactly? All of them? Or just the slimy pale slice in your hamburger? Here, check a picture of a tiny sample of tomato varieties:<a href="http://img1.amando.it/imagesdyn/articoli/52/21/65408.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img1.amando.it/imagesdyn/articoli/52/21/65408.jpg</a>Now, many of these taste as different from each other as they look. They also have different uses- some are excellent for sauces, some others in salads, some can be eaten as fruit. So what's the point in talking about tomatoes in general? Can we be a bit more precise, in the name of science? :)

tracker1超过 8 年前

I don't care for cilantro, mention in the article... but after forcing myself to eat it, quite a few times, I've gotten over it... About the only foods I don't care for and have tried to get past, and eat them.. are any kind of squash, other than pumpkin, the texture of raw meat, and any kind of organ meat I just don't care for.But cilantro, and lots of other veggies, I've gotten past, and now some things like just by making myself try them. Growing up, we had a rather limited sample palette, my mom didn't like a lot of things. It's as an adult I've come to expand things.

NeonVice超过 8 年前

Any correlation to not liking olives? I really don't like raw tomatoes, but a hint of olives (green or black) is repulsive to me.

nevir超过 8 年前

I'm the complete opposite - I can't stand the flavor or texture of cooked tomatoes.Raw tomatoes are great, as are tomato based sauces

pacaro超过 8 年前

I'm in the same boat w.r.t. tomatoes, and like very few of the nightshades, potatoes and chili peppers being the exceptions.I find the smell of tomato plants to be totally repulsive, far worse than the tomatoes themselves.My gagging when forced to eat tomatoes as a kid was seen as histrionics. It's satisfying to have some external validation

weisser超过 8 年前

My understanding is that people don't like the "mealy" taste of many supermarket tomatoes. The reason they develop this taste is that they are picked prematurely so they can ripen in transit. Tomatoes are meant to ripen on the vine, hence why some are great and others are not.

petercooper超过 8 年前

Oh awesome. This got me to dig out my raw 23andme genome data and it turns out I have the "supertaster" gene for bitterness as well. Explains why I hate all the foods (cauliflower, raw tomato, broccoli) and drinks mentioned (tonic water and alcohol generally) - very cool to know :)

vram22超过 8 年前

Other side of the coin: I don't like cooked tomatoes. Iranian cuisine has them, on top of rice dishes. I like Iranian cuisine otherwise, which I've had in a few restaurants in India, but not the fried/boiled tomatoes. Prefer them raw like in a salad.

senthil_rajasek超过 8 年前

In my case, one of the reasons I hate raw tomatoes is because the seeds look like an alien egg cluster sac and I know they can pass through human digestive system and still remain viable unharmed by the digestive juices.

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dashoffset超过 8 年前

tl;dr We don't know yet.

chrisbrandow超过 8 年前

There is a component in tomatoes that has a "grassy" flavor and that by my observations gets stronger when a tomato rots. I wonder if that (a) is true (b) related to the effect for some people.

frik超过 8 年前

Baby/small child don't eat /shouldn't eat tomatoes.

danfinlay超过 8 年前

I'd like a genetic analysis.