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?
In: Biology
Evolution. We are wired toward high calorie foods for survival.
Sweet means easily converted to energy. Fat means calorie dense storable. Salt is vital to survival and was/is not always available in nature, so when it is we gorge on it.
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