Eli5 Why are healthy foods generally not as tasty as fatty, sugary and unhealthy foods?

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Eli5 Why are healthy foods generally not as tasty as fatty, sugary and unhealthy foods?

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In the environment of food scarcity we’re actually adapted for, fat and sugar would be incredibly valuable for survival purposes, so we are hard-wired to go nuts for them.

Whereas in pure survival terms, vitamins and minerals are kind of optional. It’s better to have them, sure, but it takes a hell of a vitamin deficiency to actually die. So your body is basically saying ‘focus on staying alive first, then we’ll eat the vegetables’. In an environment of 21st century food abundance.