Why is candy and chips, the sweets the salts and the fats, so tasty for humans compared to healthy snacks like a carrot? I mean why haven’t we created a healthy snack that everybody likes instead of injecting so much sugar in a simple oranje juice that is becomes kind of unhealthy? I am shocked by the duality of it all, something that tastes supernice is mostly superbad for our health 🙂 And i guess for animals it’s the same like you could feed any animal a bar of chocolate and he would eat it even if it probably poison him right? Is there a scientific explanation?
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A food you find in nature is probably somewhat healthy, because we evolved to eat the things we find in nature at about the same rate we were able to grow or hunt them.
If you’re trying to manufacture a product to compete with those in the market, you’re going to fully optimize for taste. All you care about is that when someone finishes it they come back to buy another one. You don’t care about how healthy it is at all, subject to complying with existing regulations.
So you’ll always sacrifice healthiness for taste if you’re faced with that choice. The end result is a mixture of stuff in proportions you’d never find in nature, without all the vitamins and micronutrients that nature naturally puts in everything. And it’s designed to make people want to eat too much of it. It would be incredibly unlikely for something like that to randomly be healthier than natural foods when you paid zero attention to making it healthier.
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