Why do kids find unhealthy food tastier than healthy food?

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Why do kids find unhealthy food tastier than healthy food?

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They don’t. Kids have no preference for “unhealthy”, so why does it seem that way?

There are a world of theoretical foods that are both unhealthy, and taste awful. Nobody sells those, for obvious reasons!

**So everything you see is either healthy or tastes good, or both.** Next, “unhealthy” is really when we eat too much of a food, not that it is bad in moderation.

So a food is labelled “unhealthy” when we eat *too much* of it. Why do we do that? In a wealthy country, we do it because it tastes awesome! Ergo, in practice, the available unhealthy food is tasty.