If we all have the same type of tastebuds, why do we like different foods?

Question

Like people who crave fish, and others get totally grossed out by it. Why do we all like different things when we should be tasting them the same (sweet tastebuds, sour tastebuds, spicy tastebuds, salty tastebuds, etc)?

I know people who live in the same family don't agree on foods. And people who live in an area where they mostly have one thing (like fish, or beef, or grain) but they don't like that--and vice versa...

so what is it that gives someone they're unique preferences?

Answer 1

The amount of taste buds you have makes sweet things sweeter and and bitter things bitterer like brocolli

Answer 2

Environment plays a big factor just like people in the Philippines compared to people in U.S.A. Filipinos' diet comprises mostly of rice and American people prefers bread in their meal.

Answer 3

The same classmates in the class taught by the same teacher dont make the same grades. Then how can the same food taste the same?

Not even the children of the Mahatma Ghandhi are something similar to Mathma. But are miles away unlike him.

More that that we are not always the same to the same situation at two different times.

So it will be the same way even for food.

Answer 4

That's an easy question.  Our brains.  We all have them but we are all different.

Answer 5

depend on our choice

Answer 6

Physiological response might be the same as you pointed we all have the same type of tastebuds. Nonetheless, a lot of people has a different thresholds for tastes or other stimulus. For example some people can tolerate spicy food more than others and some people can hear more sounds than other despite all of us have ears. Right?. This is the physical part of the issue.

Psychological response has to do with your previous experiences, things you have read or watched, things you have been told, etc. This is what makes us like or dislike something.

Both, psychological and physiological responses have to do with your brain.

Answer 7

Your taste preference has much less to do with your taste buds than your sense of smell, which is highly variable among individuals.  This is why if you have to eat something you don't like, you hold your nose.  Olfactory receptors are some of the fastest evolving genes we have, so no two people smell alike (in both ways).

Answer 8

I acctually believe that foods taste different between different people.