Question

Do you think conditioned taste aversion is an actual solution to the problem it is attempting to solve or is it simply more a patch fix? How did you arrive at your opinion? give references for your answer

Answer 1

A conditioned taste aversion is defined as the avoidance of certain type of food after falling ill on eating them. The avoidance is not an actual solution but more of a patch fix untill and unless we are sure of that aversion. It is an adaptive trait for survival mechanism that trains the body to avoid poisonous or allergic food that can cause nausea or vomiting.

Conditioned taste aversion sometimes occurs when sickness was merely coincidental and not related to the substance that caused the sickness. For example, a person who becomes very sick after consuming vodka-and-orange-juice cocktails may then become averse to the taste of orange juice, even though the sickness was caused by the over-consumption of alcohol.

For more in depth understanding and clarity here is the reference for the above: Read Sauce-Bearnaise Syndrome a term coined by Seligman and Hager.