Food: Hypersensitive; Hyposensitive or somewhere in the middle?

I've had several food related discussions recently with a few autistic friends of mine, both on and off the forum and I can't help but be intrigued by how autism affects our taste in food. I have a couple of friends who are very hypersensitive to a lot of different tastes and textures and can only eat very bland tasting food of certain specific consistencies and yet there are other friends and also myself that seem to like lots of strong tastes; spices, etc. Food seems to be important to autistic people in one way or another! So I wondered where everyone else is with food. Do you prefer strong tastes and flavours or do you have a lot of food sensitivities that limit what you can eat? I'd like to know other people's opinions and thoughts on this?

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  • Peas and sweetcorn work well. You get a little crunch and pop with the noodles. Yeah, noodles are great for leftovers!

    Pho is sort of like that, but you put all the ingredients aside from the broth, and people add what they want. Everyone ends up with a bowl tailored to them. Which can be useful!

    Pho? No, not really heard of it. But there are many new types of restaurants muchrooming in the city centre here now, began and so on, so I may encounter it soon enough

    It's worth a try, because you basically get the bowl you want. We have a restaurant here that does Vietnamese, and it really only sells Pho. It's called Pho!

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