how did humans know what food was and?

Question

how did they know to cook food and invent foods such as bread and processes milk chocolare u know all our modern foods how did they know these things were edible u get what i mean its amazing

Answer 1

It was probably an accident like so many breakthroughs in science have been. Someone was probably trying to get something off with there mouth and accidentally swallowed it and then it tasted good so they ate.

Answer 2

Most likely humans learned to cook food by accident. Like finding something that was killed and "cooked" in a forest fire, making the meat easier to eat.

My hypothesis as to how humans learned to make bread is that they learned how to make beer (most likely by mistake), liked it quite a bit and from there went on to make bread. Making bread is not that much different than making beer! From there it would have been a step by step process over 1000s of years.

Answer 3

Trial and error over many 100,000's of years.

One discovery only every 10 years makes for 10,000's of food facts.

Answer 4

trial and error

Answer 5

"Grok, you eat this."
"Okay."
*munch munch munch*
"Grok, you dead?"
"No."
"Good...we put this in 'food' pile."