The ice cream and junk food that satisfies your soul can reveal the kind of person you are, even predict your ideal mate. italk tells you why sometimes cola, not chocolate gets you in the mood for love

If a certain Alan Hirsch is to be believed, ambitious women who aggressively pursue their own goals typically use less salt and eat more high-fibre food than women who prefer a more traditional role. The author of What Flavour is Your Personality, Alan Hirsch even suggests that if you reach for an baingan over kela, you may be a person who is sensitive to others' feelings, or if you choose barbecued meat over an apple, you may be more optimistic. He says that happens because your personality rules your life, even in matters of food. It isn't surprising that food is linked with every aspect of life from the most sacred to the most sensual. When you sit down to a plate of food, you bring your personality along with past experiences both, happy and sad. You may even bring food aversions and a reluctant attitude towards new foods, or a sense of adventure and a willingness to experiment with "what's for dinner?"

Actor Hrithik Roshan loves eating Apple Pie with vanilla ice cream

Associations with food extend to qualities of the food itself. In Western culture, foods like lobsters, caviar and champagne are "success" foods. Then there are comfort foods, like mashed potatoes, which remind us of happier times. Read on to find out who you are the potato chip personality or the vanilla ice cream one?

Maybe your kids were born as picky eaters

While we cannot explain all likes and dislikes that appear among babies and young children, some evidence suggests that the food a pregnant woman eats, influences the foetus. For example, if the mother eats garlic, it becomes part of the amniotic fluid and the newborn will be oriented toward the odour of garlic. One study demonstrated how when women consumed carrot juice while pregnant and/or while nursing, the infants were more accepting of carrot-flavoured cereal, even when they had been weaned from breast milk. The exposure to the taste and odour of carrot juice was sufficient to influence later acceptance.

FOOD, SEX AND ODOUR

Did you know that the odour of lavender increases alpha waves in the back of the brain, which induces relaxation that can lead to sexual arousal? Or that chocolate, that is considered to be a romantic giant, has shown little power to arouse men, whereas cola showed considerable difference?

There's some insight into your sexual personality

For men
Which do you prefer?
>>Cranberries, chocolate or grapefruit?
>>Pumpkin pie, donuts and black licorice?
If you picked the first group, then you tend to think about sex much of the time. Yo are a people-person and like close relationships. If you picked the second group, you are sexually reserved and enjoy group activities. Your fear of rejection makes you uncomfortable in front of women.

For women
Which do you prefer?
>>Candy and banana nut bread?
>>Pumpkin pie and cherries?

If you chose the first option, you tend to escape into sexual fantasies. You enjoy physical contact and tend to be a sensitive person. If you chose the second option, you tend to be conservative and are more realist in your approach to relationships.

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