Eli5 Why are healthy foods generally not as tasty as fatty, sugary and unhealthy foods?
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During most of our evolutionary history fruits and vegetables were easy to come by.
Foods high in sugars and fats were not as easy to come by. However, they contain a lot of energy that can be easily stored. By evolving to find them absolutely delicious it meant that we’d pig out of them when we found them and that increased our ability to survive leaner times.
The modern day is the opposite. Sugary and fatty foods are very easy to come by but we still have the bodies of cavepeople.
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