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The study aims to determine whether dislike of vegetables is associated with the presence of metabolic disorders.

Cross‐sectional analysis of the data of middle‐aged (range 51–59 years) male personnel of the Self‐Defense Forces.

Of subjects studied, 76.4 per cent answered they liked vegetables, 19.2 per cent were intermediate between liking and dislike and 4.4 per cent disliked vegetables. The odds ratio (95 per cent CI) of vegetable dislike to like was 2.22 (1.08–4.57) for the presence of diabetes, 2.46 (1.23–4.94) for hyper‐triglyceridemia and 2.54 (1.33–4.86) for high γ‐glutamyl transferase in a logistic regression analysis adjusted for age and lifestyle factors. Vegetable dislike did not correlate with hypertension, hypercholesterol‐emia or obesity. Vegetable consumption did not correlate with diabetes.

The results do not show a cause–result relationship. Observed findings may not be applied to age‐matched general population, or to older, younger, female or other ethnic persons.

Vegetable dislike may be regarded as a simple marker of metabolic status including type 2 diabetes.

The authors show the cross‐sectional association between dislike of vegetables and type 2 diabetes.