why is junk food so tasty?

Question

i love coke, i love chocolate, i love all sorts of junk food, but recently i haven't felt very "normal" because i dnt really like fatty food anymore, (except chocolate ice cream of course!)

Answer 1

Partly instinct and partly habit.

The current availability of sweets and processed fatty foods is not normal for humans. We have spent tens of thousands of years struggling to get enough nutrition to survive and we have instincts to help us find what we need WHEN FOOD IS SCARCE.

Children instinctively crave sweets. In nature fruits (and vegetables) were the only way to get foods high in sugar. Children have a higher metabolism than adults. They need high energy foods to keep up and they nap more often. Higher metabolisms, also, use or lose vitamins more quickly and need them replenished more often.

Adults instinctively require less sweets then children. Physiologically adults have less sensitivity to sugar on their tongues and more complex taste receptors. Scientific response tests have found that adults enjoy sweets less but still seek them out out of HABIT.
We “treat” ourselves for doing a good job. Adults associate sweets with accomplishment. (Side note: this is the inherent problem with using food as a treat/reinforcer).

Same thing with fats. In nature they are rare and important to get. Fats, especially essential oils like olive oil, keep our skin from chaffing, our lips from chapping, and are a necessary ingredient (in proper amounts) in most bodily function.

The body does not know the difference between the occasional nice fatty avocado that might keep your hair healthy and a blob of nacho cheese on your chips. All it THINKS it knows is that fats are RARE and that you need to store some up before the long winter months.

Answer 2

Additives

Answer 3

Your body produces chemicals that make you crave things (especially fatty and sweet foods). The more you eat of those foods, the more you become addicted to them.

That's why you are practically dying when you have so much sugar in your diet, but then starve yourself of it (e.g. low carb diet, etc.)

Hope that helps.

Answer 4

it is tasty because all of them contain sugar or fat/butter in some extent, or both. Fat is what gives flavor to meals. Sugar also gives flavor as salt does to salad dishes. Imagine a piece of meat without salt or pepper.ugghh

Answer 5

cheetos, doritos, chips and dip, fried each thing! you would be able to would desire to set out a team of standard junk nutrition like twinkies, candy bars, oreos, cookie dough, etc. and enable every physique decide on stuff and fry it. relatively buttery/salty popcorn, cheese sticks, colourful twizzlers, chocolate coated pretzels, those rather rather softy cookies!!!, chex combination for the not so exciting human beings, purely a bowl of hershey's chocolate blocks (like broken from the bar), fudge, soda, yoohoo, yea i think of you get the photograph?

Answer 6

They are tasty because of the ingredients they have.. Like more oil, sugar, bla bla bla... But have you asked the question how do they prepare it? If you knew well you would probably stop at once

Answer 7

junk food has never been tasty.. it's a dead food.. doesn't taste like anything but additives.

i get more enjoyment out of steamed spinach.. or a fresh apple than i do chips or a burger.

Answer 8

it is full of additives, flavourings, colourings that enhance taste, texture and colour. this means that it is also unhealthy as all these are chemicals and fats that are not necessarily good for you. Learn to cook good food and you will soon not want any of the artificial flavours!

Answer 9

Some stuff has chemicals in them that make you addicted and trick your brain into thinking its nice.
Scary really what they put in food

Answer 10

well you think it is tasty but it isn't and will never be. I think you've never try a REAL food to see what is really tasty.