Flora's condition, ARFID, means she avoids almost all food apart from plain pasta, butter and bread.
In the latest three months of available data, from April to June this year, 2,862 children and young people began NHS treatment for an eating disorder, with 1,721 on a waiting list. That waiting list has more than tripled compared with the same period three years ago.
"I remember being in front of a fridge full of different types of butter I didn't recognise, crying because I couldn't decide whether I was going to spend an entire year without butter, or try something new that might make me feel really anxious and unwell," she says. Learning from her gap year experience, Flora decided to avoid the busy, shared kitchens in student halls when she started university - opting instead to share a flat with just one other person.
That can include being very sensitive to the taste, texture, smell, or appearance of certain types of food, or only being able to eat foods at a certain temperatureAfter spending hours searching for a meal, Flora finally settled on a panini. The ordeal meant she lost a day of studying time and was left feeling "tired, hungry and embarrassed".