She suffers from a fear known as lachanophobia, which leaves her sweating and stricken with panic attacks at the merest sight of a sprout or a pea...
"People might think it is a bit of a laughable affliction but I have a genuine fear of greens it's not just that I dislike the taste of sprouts or broccoli, but the actual sight of them fills me with dread and I could never touch them."
The unusual fear affects just a few thousand people in Britain...
The fact that she has gone public with her affliction shows that she does not have gelotophobia. You can find your phobia here.
Link. Image credit to 365 Halloween. For a scarier creation see the "Vegetalien" of digital artist Till Nowak, and for a less frightening one, see Giuseppe Arcimboldo's work.
All I can say to the young woman with the fear of vegetables is get over it. Or live the rest of your life as my roommate does - fat,alone and disabled. Needless to say I'm looking for a different living situation.