Individual differences in the recognition of prepared food

•Food neophobia, or the tendency to avoid novel foods, is associated with poor health. • Most correlates of food neophobia come from self-report • We explore the association between this stable trait and the ability to visually recognize images of prepared food. • We created the first two tasks specifically designed to measure the visual ability to recognize food • We estimated domain-general visual ability with two tasks using novel objects. • We also measured Five Factor Model personality traits, and included a survey of interest for food.