User blog comment:Twilightfanjm/Vampires and human food/@comment-7600752-20130801033528

The books let the reader know how vampires feel about human food. I know in several of the novels Edward would watch Bella eat and he gets slightly repulsed by it. Edward was majorly grossed out just by the sight (and smell) of Bella's breakfast cereal. At another time, Edward helps Bella while she's preparing dinner for her and Charlie. Bella says that Edward was very repulsed by the raw ingredients. While in the school cafeteria, Bella dares Edward to eat human food. Edward quickly bit off a piece of pizza and quickly swallowed it. Edward compared it to a human eating dirt. Since vampires cannot process anything but blood, they have to later cough or gag up the swallowed food or drink. But vampires hate and are repelled by the look and the smell of human food. The only time a vampire was shown eating in the novels was the first novel "Twilight", when Edward ate a bite of pizza...and then again in Breaking Dawn, when Edward eats the slice of wedding cake that Bella feeds him.