From Latin cibus + -phobia.
cibophobia (uncountable)
- The fear of, or aversion to, eating or food.
1981, M. J. Renaer, Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women, Spring-Verlag, →ISBN, page 134:The pain pattern is so intimately related to the ingestion of food that the patient will reduce the size of meals, become reluctant to eat, and even develop frank cibophobia.
1993, Marion Eugene Ensminger, Audrey H. Ensminger, Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia, Two Volume Set, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 423:Cibophobia differs from anorexia since appetite may persist but the pearson fears eating because of some associated or subsequent discomfort.
2013 October 28, Max Hill, “Fear Factor”, in The Peak, volume 145, number 9, Simon Fraser University, page 15:This condition arises from cheese-related trauma (I'll leave it up to you to imagine what this might entail) and it's often considered a subcategory of cibophobia.