Personality may predict if you like spicy foods date. Personality factors predict spicy food liking and intake. It is broadly considered a matter of receptors in our mouths having a varying level of sensitivity. Thailand, the philippines, india and malaysia are at the top of the list. You take the risk that hot peppers and similar foods will burn your mouth. As i write this, my mouth is currently a bit aflame, owing to a side of beans which had been spiced with a. Men and women like spicy foods for different reasons. The book has separate chapters on snacks, ice cream flavors, fruits, spices and salt, cereals, sensual foods, soup, meat, and of course chocolate. Heres what an appetite for spicy foods says about your. Research has found that thrill seekers tend to like the burn of a spicy meal, and.
Find out here what your favorite foods say about you. The scientists speculate that capsaicin, the compound that gives hot peppers their zing, links your taste buds passion for peppers and an adrenaline rush, and that eating foods with capsaicin can simulate the rush of living on the edge. Your food choices say a lot about your personality. The spicy food lovers cookbook is a beautiful marriage of flavor and heat. In models assessing whether personality moderates of the relationship between the liking of spicy foods and yearly intake i. In the 1970s, rozin studied the eating habits of mexican children and determined that the consumption of spicy foods was actually a learned behavior.
The everyday habits that reveal our personalities bbc future. Personality seems to play a key role in our lust for heat in our food. Research has found that thrill seekers tend to like the burn of a spicy meal, and the lure may be different for men and women. What loving or hating spicy food says about you mnn. Williams found that out of a group of 55 patients, the secondmost common type with an eating disorder was the intj type. A 2010 study compiled in the book the association between myersbriggs personality types and eating disorders by sarah a. How personality type is determined by your favorite food. Isabel orozcomoore, food blogger and photographer, isabel eat the spicy food lovers cookbook elevates the flavor of both familiar and notsofamiliar dishes with the many varieties of that vegetable of extreme smack. Do you like sweets or prefer salty or spicy flavors. The salt personality seems to play a key role in our lust for heat in our food. Men and women like spicy foods for different reasons, science explains. A few days later, i met up with a guy who explained why the food is so hot in this part of china. Scientific research has proven that not all people are equally affected by capsaicin the compound that creates the heat in spicy food.
Developing an appetite for spicy foods may take some time. Even pigs, who usually devour anything edible and who, if they live in the mexican highlands, should be accustomed to spicy leftover food from people, tend to give a wide berth to tortillas with. Gender differences in the influence of personality traits. Without offsetting that lost sense of smell, some people will feel depressed. Love of spicy food isnt just desensitization, or cultural upbringingit also has ties to who you are. Adam lapetina is a food drink staff writer at thrillist. But theres more to the enjoyment of spicy food than simply gender, personality or sensitivity to capsaicin. Based on the observed patterns among various personality measures, and spicy food liking and intake, we propose that personality measures may exert their influence on intake of spicy food via. From dining on spicy food to singing in the shower, seemingly innocuous behaviours may say a lot about your character.