If your brain is designed to reward you for seeking out salts, sugars, and fats to stay alive, then why do radically different taste palettes between people exist? Shouldn’t taste preferences be similar across the species?

Question

If your brain is designed to reward you for seeking out salts, sugars, and fats to stay alive, then why do radically different taste palettes between people exist? Shouldn’t taste preferences be similar across the species?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Food palettes and the necessity for specific food groups are very different. You palette develops based on what you are fed and what you feed yourself. Therefor your palette develops based on what food you have available around you. We seek out salts, fats and sugars but find different combinations based on our geographical location and resources available.