Food Taboos Around the World

Food taboos are specific foods and beverages that people do not eat due to religious, cultural, legal, or societal restrictions. They are considered prohibitions because they forbid the consumption of certain foods or animals.

Food taboos can include mammals, rodents, reptiles, amphibians, fish, molluscs, crustaceans, and insects.

Meat-based foods are more commonly associated with disgust responses because humans have a natural aversion to consuming animal flesh.

<p>Some examples of specific food prohibitions include forbidding the consumption of certain parts or excretions of an animal, or avoiding the consumption of plants or fungi.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The origins of food prohibitions can vary. They may be influenced by health considerations, practical reasons, or human symbolic systems.</p> Signup and view all the answers