Why do we have to actually ingest food to enjoy it?

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The other day I was eating some junk food and wishing there was a way I could just enjoy the taste of the food instead of it actually going into my body.

But if you were to just chew it then spit it out, it would be extremely unsatisfying and probably worse then just not putting it in your mouth at all.

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But what you enjoy about junk food, isn’t just the mouth feel, or the taste.

Swallowing itself is “satisfying”, so is the feeling of putting food in your stomach. Not as strong a feeling as the taste, but it’s part of the equation too.

So even if you spat the food out and it wasn’t unpleasant, you’d miss the swallowing/fullness part of the enjoyment.

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