Like in the turn of the 20th century there was a shit ton of eugenicist “food experts” who pushes the idea that overtly flavored food (like the dishes from the colonies) are bad for the white man’s health and they instead must eat the blandest

There was food racism around the time of the Spanish genociding Latin America of its indigenous too lol, they claimed that the reason why the indigenous were so "inferior" was because they subsisted on a diet of maize which made them inherently weak and were afraid that by eating corn they too would become Indigenous.

Some Spaniards worried that by eating indigenous foods, which they did not consider nutritious, they would weaken and risk turning into Indians. "In the view of Europeans, it was the food they ate, even more than the environment in which they lived, that gave Amerindians and Spaniards both their distinctive physical characteristics and their characteristic personalities." - The Body of the Conquistador pg.5

And then they proceeded to ban a great deal of food staple crops in what would become Mexico, such as chia seeds and amaranth which lead to modern consequences such as a great deal of Indigenous recipes being near-impossible to recreate due to lost knowledge about food (the Spanish burned shitloads of critical Mayan texts and the subsequent banning of crops meant that even passing knowledge from generation to generation was now in strife without the ingredients to make it)