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Different Food Textures Affect The Choice Of Foods People Like To Eat

By Kaye Dennan

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Did you realize that the different food textures will often be the difference to why a person does or does not like a particular food?

There is much more to just making quick and easy meals because unless you are also aware of the textures of the food you could find that your meal planning has not been as popular as you thought it might.

The flavor of food has always been paramount in our thoughts but the difference between soft and slushy food and hard and crunchy foods for example, also makes a different in the choice of food we want to eat.

How many people do you know who turn their nose up at eating raw oysters but are quite happy to eat Fried Oysters or Oyster Kilpatrick? The oyster is the same but it is the slippery nature of the raw oyster that most people dislike, not the actual flavor.

Feeding babies

Many parents just cannot understand why their babies will not eat mashed or creamed food but that is why, it is the soft slushy texture. Some parents just by-pass that stage altogether and start with finger food because the baby prefers to pick something up in their fingers and eat something a little more solid, something like peas, corn, beans, avocado and cheese to name a few favorites.

Meal planning

As children get older they do tend to drop their strong dislike for different food textures but a preference often still remains into adulthood with some people. Understanding the differences may help you realize why some meals you cook are more popular than others.

The difference for you as the cook may only be a change in how you present your food to your family. In other words, you may serve roast vegetables instead of mashed vegetables and you may serve boiled eggs instead of scrambled eggs. See the difference in textures, not necessarily the product?

This also is why some people like to eat a lot of raw food like salads which tend to be crunchy whereas other people prefer cooked vegetables which are softer. Also why some people like stews and others prefer to have a fried piece of steak without all the gravy.

With an understanding of how the different food textures affect different people it will make your meal planning so much easier and will help you put quick and easy meals together that you know will be popular.

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