How come fat food tastes better than non fat food?
2006-09-07 13:41:11 · 10 answers · asked by soapsniffer712 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
I think you just answered your own question. It tastes better!
2006-09-07 13:43:19 · answer #1 · answered by margarita 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Study Shows Fatty Foods Really Do Taste Good
As the holidays approach, so do tasty treats laden with calories, many of them provided by fat. It's no wonder these delectables taste so good, according to a study published recently in the journal Physiology and Behavior. Despite a previous belief to the contrary, fat does have flavor after all.
Prevailing theory allows for five food tastes: the venerable sweet, salty, sour, bitter and the more recently discovered umami, which is evoked by monosodium glutamate (MSG). Fat, according to this view, only provides texture to food. But animal studies have suggested that there are chemical signals at work for detecting fat via taste or smell.
So Richard Mattes and graduate students in his laboratory at Purdue University recruited 19 adults willing to eat cream cheese in the name of science. After fasting overnight and having their blood fat levels tested, the subjects ate up. Some people both tasted and smelled the fatty cheese, others just tasted it and some only smelled it while the control group received no sensory stimulation at all. The scientists found that the blood fat levels of subjects who both tasted and smelled the food rose three times more than those of the control group. The fat levels of the subjects who tasted while wearing nose plugs rose a similar amount. People only allowed to smell the cream cheese, however, did not experience a rise in fat levels. "This tells us that taste is the stimulus that causes the rise in blood fat levels," Mattes explains.
If this is indeed the case, it may explain why fat-free foods just don't taste quite as good as their full-fat counterparts. "I wonder if the less-than-perfect performance of current fat replacers may be due to a lack of understanding of all mechanisms for fat perception," Mattes muses. "Failure to account for a taste component may compromise quality." Just another reason to reach for the real ice cream this holiday season.
2006-09-07 13:46:55 · answer #2 · answered by me, myself and I 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sweets amd fats are triggers for the tougue. Of course they will taste better. The only disadvantage is the excessive consumption of people. It will lead to severe distruction in the long run, but of course have some once in a while can't hurt.
2006-09-07 13:50:27 · answer #3 · answered by G-Minor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure they taste good to us, but there's an evolutionary reason for that.
Sugar and fat are high energy foods. You knew that. What you may not know is that for most of our evolutionary history, both of these elements were hard to find in our environment. Consequently our genes are programmed to appreciate and enjoy them, because for most of our history we really needed the extra nutritional boost they gave us. Sadly, we don't NEED them any more...but we still crave them!
2006-09-07 13:52:42 · answer #4 · answered by keepsondancing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because anything that is not good for you always tastes better than foods that are good for you.
2006-09-07 13:46:33 · answer #5 · answered by tracytracyspikes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it just tastes better.but sometimes i eat non sweet and non fat foods.
2006-09-07 13:44:26 · answer #6 · answered by gggg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The salt and sugar is what makes it taste better.
2006-09-07 13:46:42 · answer #7 · answered by BAnne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they taste so good
2006-09-07 13:46:01 · answer #8 · answered by sugarbdp1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a brain thing, really.
2006-09-07 13:46:54 · answer #9 · answered by tiger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they dont care about there hearts,or being fat ,,,,,,,,,,
2006-09-07 13:45:38 · answer #10 · answered by amberharris20022000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋