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Chef

A chef is a pleasure-seeking food lover.

Chefs make the daily experience of eating transform into something beautiful. Chefs like Gordon Ramsay, Julia Child, Chrissy Teigen, Enrique Olvera, Jiro Ono naturally have expansive taste palettes and are often less prone to food allergies. Chefs can be a bit neurotic at times but are comfortable with change and seek novelty.
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Novelty Seeking Behavior
Taste Sensitivity to Fat
Bitter Taste
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You have a stronger tendency for seeking novelty
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Novelty Seeking Behavior

Individuals with high novelty seeking behavior tend to respond more dramatically to novel stimulation and reward signals, and make decisions more impulsively. It is a highly heritable personality trait. Novelty seeking has been found to have a positive correlation with extraversion and a negative correlation with conscientiousness.
You are likely to have taste sensitivity to fat
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Taste Sensitivity to Fat

Dietary fatty acids play an important role on lipid and energy metabolism in human health. Dietary fats are sensed through their textural and odorant properties rather than taste. The individual perception of fat has been associated with CD36 polymorphism and genetic ability to perceive oral marker 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP).
You tend to have an intermediate sensitivity to bitter taste
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Bitter Taste

There is great individual difference in how easily we experience bitter taste, due to high genetic variation in the genes that code for bitter taste receptors expressed on our tongues. If you couldn’t stand the taste of brussel sprouts or green peppers as a kid, or the taste of coffee now, you may have hyper-sensitive bitter taste perception.
You have an intermediate tendency to be less neurotic
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Neuroticism

A neurotic person is prone to experiencing negative feelings like anxiety, depression, and emotional instability. Psychologists have defined neuroticism as one of the five psychological traits (the “Big 5”) forming the basis of personality.
You tend to be at a lower risk for peanut allergy.
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Peanut Allergy

Peanut allergy ranks as one of the top three food allergies, along with allergies to egg white and cow’s milk. Most people find out whether they have a peanut allergy through general life experience. However, some people don’t develop a food allergy until later in life, or they outgrow an allergy, only to have it come back again later in adulthood. We can’t explain these phenomena yet, as a mechanistic understanding of allergy development and the immune system is still very limited.
You tend to be at a lower risk for shrimp allergy.
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Shrimp Allergy

Besides diet, lifestyle, and other environmental factors, genetics also plays a part in determining what food allergies you have and how serious they are. While shrimp allergy is certainly not as common as peanut, milk, or egg allergy in the West, shellfish (a classification that contains shrimp) is the most common food allergen in Asia, in part due to the abundance of seafood in this region.
You have an intermediate tendency to seek out carbohydrates in your diet
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Carbohydrate Intake

Carbohydrate intake, dictated by diet choice, varies substantially between individuals. There is evidence that this variation may in part be attributed to genetic variation, and contributes to differential risk in chronic diseases such as obesity and diabetes.
You tend to have an intermediate risk for egg allergy.
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Egg Allergy

Egg allergy is an immune hypersensitivity to proteins found in eggs and it is a heritable trait. Our understanding of the immune system’s reaction to allergies is still very limited -- the immune system is very complex; environmental and genetic contributions are difficult to isolate and study. Furthermore, allergic reactions span a wide range in severity -- lots of people don’t even notice they have an egg allergy!
You tend to be at a higher risk for peach allergy.
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Peach Allergy

Besides diet, lifestyle, and other environmental factors, genetics also plays a part in determining what food allergies you have and how serious they are. Peach allergy can manifest as an allergic reaction to the actual peach, or to birch-pollen, which is a type of pollen that has a protein similar in shape to a protein found in peaches. This allergy is found to be more common in children and in females of European descent.
Your are likely to have a higher consumption frequency of fried dishes
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Frequency of Eating Fried Dishes

Dietary patterns characterized by high consumption of saturated fats and simple sugars play a crucial role in obesity progression. The tendency of selecting high-energy-dense palatable foods more often is due, in part, to how pleasurable and rewarding they are to consume. Unhealthy food behaviors and obesity have been associated with the functionality of the Taq1A polymorphism in the DRD2 gene which plays a crucial role in the brain reward system.
You have a stronger tendency to be a morning person
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Morningness

Are you an early bird or a night owl? Age plays a big role -- teenagers tend toward a night owl lifestyle, while senior people are usually up at the crack of dawn. Besides your age, genetics also influences the time of day you tend to be more active and alert.

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