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None. In fact, off the top of my head, the only food I really have a problem with is bamboo shoots. The smell, ugh.

Paw paws. Never tasted one, but the smell--oh, lord, the smell. Somebody used to bring them from his tree into my workplace for one of my colleagues...though in a different office, I'd make her take them out to the car, or shove them in a closet; but preferably somewhere outside the building...

Avoid fruit? I can't think of a single one. I don't care so much for cooked strawberries, I guess. Other than that, there's no such thing as a bad fruit. Fresh, dried, cooked, or otherwise.

I recently learned that eggplant is actually a fruit. So, I can say that I don't care for (actually have never tried) RAW eggplant. Love it cooked!

I love fruit. Only odor that bothers me is Cheerios. My sister had allergies and ate Cheerios with apricot nectar....to this day the smell of either makes me ill.

JEP...you don't like pineapple?! Uh-oh, I may have to disown you ;)

As for me...I am not too fond of honeydew or most melons. I'll eat them but they're definitely last resort in the fruit bowl.

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The Pomelo. I have purchased and eaten exactly one of them because it's all skin and no citrusy payoff.

Love bananas but they don't love me.

Not such a fan of papaya, mostly because of the texture, although the flavour has never knocked my socks off either - give me a mango or guava any day though! How do you all feel about persimmons? Or passion fruit? I like 'em, but they can be a bit squishy so I'm curious to hear what others think...

Yep, pineapple; it's just too sweet for me. I can have maybe one bite of the fresh stuff (I keep trying to like it), and then I am done. Love all other fruits, though.

There's not a single fruit I don't at least kind of like, and most fruit I love. However, strawberries that are cooked in any way are just disgusting to me. It's a textural thing. The taste is fine, but they get so slimy.

grapefruit and papaya. i don't mind bananas plain, but i don't like them as part of a dish (especially smoothies!).

Again, falling under the "I won't refuse it, but I won't seek it out either" file: raspberries and any fruit with fur on it (I'm looking at you, peaches. Why can't you be more like your cousin, the nectarine?").

Every time I get cantelope in fruit salad I try to make myself eat it. And every time I do, I remember why I hate it so much. I cannot even describe it, but it's just nasty! Same goes to honeydew, though I can stand it a bit more. Cherries on their own are not so great either. BUT give me an apple, banana, or some berries any day!

Fresh fruit: bananas and any kind of melons, from the smell to the texture to the taste - can't take it. I don't eat any cooked fruit, but I'll eat apple strudel (not apple pie though, I guess it's the pastry-to-apples ratio thing). I don't eat any dried fruit at all, although I make a great hot appetizer - apricots stuffed with veal (I guess, it's more in the "cooked fruit" category by the time it's done and the dried apricots are soaked in wine, stuffed with ground veal and cooked in the wine/thyme/brown sugar/cinnamon sauce... I can eat one or two of these and actually enjoy them. My hubby will eat a plateful:-)).

And I like to think that I am no longer a picky eater:-)

I'm not a big fan of pineapple either. I'll eat it, but it's not my preference.

Mango

Kiwi

Bananas! I havent liked them since I was about 6 years old.

I've never been a big fan of pears or grapefruit, but I'll eat it if that's all there is.

And that particularly applies to pears, I'd add, Ash.

Emmab - I love love LOVE persimmons. But the mushy ones (hachiya, the ones that look like big orange acorns) I think are best used for cooking and baking, as in yummy persimmon pudding. For eating out of hand, I much prefer fuyu persimmons, which are firmer and look like little orange tomatoes.

Oh there's another one. Persimmons make awesome bread and excellent fruit butter and that's about it for me. The texture is just bleck, and they're insipidly sweet to me.

Mango

Several of the comments got a gasp out of me!
Pomelos are great! But only during certain times of the year...the fruit is big, and once you get all the rind off, yeah sometimes the yield is pretty small in comparison, but if you get it a good one, its sweet, tangy and so juicy you need several napkins while eating fist-sized chunks of the fruit.

And persimmons...I despise the soft Hachiya variety which are all goo and mush. But the firm, round Fuyu variety is to die for during Fall. The flesh is dense and super sweet and depending on how long you let it ripen, you can have it crisp or somewhat softer, but it never gets anywhere close to gooey as the Hachiyas...

I guess I have to say I'm not fond of dragonfruit...its pretty but I havent managed to find any that tasted good, even in Asia.
Guava, also not a big fan of the pink variety or the white variety.
And Papaya...I don't hate it, but it has a funny musty aftertaste to me.

Wow, these comments are really interesting. I am happy to see some
fellow canteloupophobes in this group- I often think I'm the only one- I
couldn't even stand the smell of it on my mother's dinner plate next to
me at the table growing up. I am more tolerant now but will never like the
taste. I think there must be some kind of body chemistry that makes it
abhorrent to a number of us. Watermelon is fine though.
I once ran into an acquaintance in the upscale grocery store and she
was getting a huge bag of cherimoyas- she absolutely was obsessed with
them. I think they do have to be properly ripe to be good. I've never really
experienced a good ripe one. Suppposedly they taste like vanilla custard
and pineapple and can be eaten with a spoon when ripe.
I'm not wild about asian pears, they seem too bland to me. Love fresh
lychees and concord grapes.
To the mango haters, try getting a ripe champagne type mango or a larger one that is shaped like a kidney bean, not the reddish football ones that are more common. The kidney bean shaped ones are more stringy but have that wonderful taste that great lassi has.

This has been a fantastic thread---thanks for everyone commenting!! Love the way everyone expresses themselves :)

Red raspberries. For some reason, I find their taste cloying and annoying.

I have the same distaste for papaya as some other folks who have already commented. The taste is not particularly remarkable though I have heard if you put it in some savory, spicy dishes, it's good (I have yet to try that though).
Also I cannot stand apples that have a powdery or mealy texture to them or are too soft.