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May 16, 2011 at 17:11 comment added fred If this were true, then wouldn't all cultures find the same things to taste 'good'? Sodas (pop, coke, whatever) are vastly different from country to country. Same with candies. For a culture day, we bought some Chinese candy in to U.S. children. While the candy is popular in China, every child here spit it out as 'uneatable'.
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May 16, 2011 at 5:28 comment added Michael Regardless of the answer to your question, it would most certainly be a correlation and not a universal truth. The body needs calcium, and yet I hate milk, and I absolutely loathe cheese. I don't think I could eat a cheeseburger even if I were on the brink of starvation. I couldn't name a single natural source of calcium that I like. I just dislike some less than others.
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May 15, 2011 at 23:16 comment added Larian LeQuella I remember reading a survival story where a guy found fish eyeballs delectable because he figured they contained something he needed. Either that, or he rationalized it in order to muck it down. Human perceptions are very weird!
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May 15, 2011 at 22:06 comment added user2547 Also, regarding "nutrients", shall we consider (1) basic nutrients such as calories which were scarce historically but overabundant in modern food (2) known vitamins and life-essential micronutrients, for which we can apply the "control group experiment" mentioned earlier, or (3) any family of phytochemicals, for which the health claims have not yet been established?
May 15, 2011 at 22:01 comment added user2547 What would be the control group(s) for this experiment? e.g. (1) food tastes good and contain necessary nutrients (2) food doesn't taste good but contains necessary nutrients (3) food tastes good but is nutritionally useless or harmful (4) food doesn't taste good and is nutritionally useless or harmful.
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