Why do kids find unhealthy food tastier than healthy food?
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Although there’s definitely some biological component to this, I would honestly say the biggest reason is marketing.
Trash food has bright colored and fun marketing that gets blasted at kids constantly and they have dumb dumb child brains, so their brains go “must be good, it’s shiny!”. My kid literally wants to have his birthday at Chuck E Cheese because “it’s the best place to have a birthday party! They even say so!” Because he saw ONE commercial about it 6 months ago.
Think about McDonalds. It has a bright colorful sign, fun looking food packaging, toys with your food, and a play area. It’s even got a catchy jingle. It HAS to be the best food, right?? What about Dino Nuggets? I can get my kid the exact same nuggets but they will swear the ones shaped like dinosaurs are better tasting.
Capitalism is really really good at getting people to think cheap trash is better and especially when targeting children with child brains.
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