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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I believe part of it (and only part) may come from evolution. If you descended from a cold place where things were preserved by salts and temperature and smoke, I think it might influence your preferences.
If closer to the equator and in an area that couldn’t preserve meat well/whatnot, spice and pickles may be more your jam.
It is definitely, very heavily, related to what we ate coming up, too. It force fed, etc. associations with foods are number one, good or bad
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