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
Good quantities of nutrients are tricky to come by “in the wild”. So your body craves essential things.
We need salt, we need carbs, we need fats. So in nature, if you find a source of those, you want to consume them. We are programmed to want to eat them.
Then, it’s rare in nature to get fat and sugar together. It turns out that in combination, they are quite addictive.
So we crave these foods, because as an animal, we don’t know when we will get nutrition again, and thus want to eat them.
Also, salts and sugars actually as preservatives, so they make manufactur d products last longer, which is better for the seller.
Anso, companies research the best ways to make their products moreish, compelling us to keep buying and eating.
In short – we are slaves to our animal cravings and manufacturers play on this.
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