avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder
Findings
No curated finding names avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
An eating disorder characterized by avoidance or restriction of food intake due to one or more of the following: lack of interest in eating or food, sensitivity to sensory characteristics of food (such as taste, texture, smell, or appearance), or concern about aversive consequences of eating (such as choking or vomiting), resulting in persistent failure to meet appropriate nutritional and/or energy needs as manifested by significant weight loss, nutritional deficiency, dependence on enteral feeding or nutritional supplements, or marked interference with psychosocial functioning, and where the eating disturbance is not better explained by lack of available food, cultural or religious practices, another mental disorder, or a concurrent medical condition.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:7770002), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
2 names
Resolves to: avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder
- Also called
- ARFIDselective eating disorder