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?

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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?

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They are. Every culture has desserts and sweets and salty things that are parts of their diets. Those remain the same, but it’s the other foods — that don’t elicit those cravings — that make up the differences.

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