WHY do we have different taste in food? Wouldn’t it make more sense for everyone to like/dislike the same foods?
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A lot of foods are an acquired taste.
So basically look at it this way: get a bunch of people from different parts of the globe all together, and don’t feed them for a day. Then introduce just a basic food, say, a bunch of cheese.
Will they all salivate and have their stomach start producing acid in anticipation of being able to eat something? Yes. So that means everyone will have the same reaction to food, as far as the body is concerned (reflexes, etc.).
Will they all like the taste of cheese? Perhaps not, but cheese and all other foods can be an acquired taste, and we may get more or less pleasure from the taste buds coming in contact with cheese, because we *learn* to like or dislike complex flavor combinations, as babies.
All babies will like sweets. Not all babies may like a chocolate cake (don’t feed babies chocolate cake). Chocolate can be an acquired taste, you grow up as a kid with it, you like it as an adult.
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