Why do unhealthy foods like junk foods taste delicious and addicting while healthy foods like vegetables dont?
In: Biology
Basically: Our bodies crave foods high in sugars and fats and all times because we went so long without ready access to food, and those two were good for energy and survival. They were also hard come by in large quantities forever up until super recently for our species. Junk food and fast food exploit this (and you) by having tons and tons of fat and sugar (like insane amounts actually, [see a Coke](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/JH–4647pYVsdxSUN1R3HkDGFJOBnulBbcK-K3gN_YL9ng15JSTxBVEuOCOcWbxPAJyF_P9v1gk-rLWqQvSEug) and the amount of sugar that goes in it). They put awfully high amounts of salt in nearly everything to enhance the flavors as well. With the sugar, fat, salt trifecta — nearly everything is enhanced to taste damn near perfect to our evolutionary and biological senses.
Many common American household vegetables are boring roots or leaves… composed or mostly water or starch. Little sugars, little fats, little flavor. They’re good because of fiber, vitamins and minerals, though still.
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