As a picky eater it feels weird how our bodies reject certain foods just because they don’t taste good or have a weird texture and not because there’s something wrong with it. It has nutritional value and other humans seem to enjoy it, so why won’t my body accept it? What it we were still cavemen in the wild and we were picky with food like that, that’s a huge survival disadvantage it makes no sense. We can get away with it now that living is easier, but were humans always this way?
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Well, not necessarily a disadvantage. Imagine you and your tribe live on a certain territory. You know what plants, fungi and animals can be eaten in that area. Your tribe managed to survive for generations eating those. You were raised eating them and that’s how your sense of taste developed. Now imagine you see a new plant that has a weird smell and taste. Should you eat it? Or is it better to stay with those you know?
Today you can check with a book or the Internet, which foods are edible, and which are “edible only once”. But our ancestors didn’t have this luxury and there is no magical way to detect every poison.
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