Tasty

[kdbug93]

Hi eveyone,

Does anybody know what causes your taste buds to like certain foods? Is there any other reason for that besides your DNA?

[woofgang]

there can be lots of reasons. Evolution made sweet things taste good because sweet means energy, likewise the "mouth feel" of fat. Foods you are fed or not fed as a baby or tastes you get from your mothers milk have an effect too.

[redmug100]

Its a combonation of taste and smell that makes you like certain foods. Taste is a pretty basic sense that allows you to determine whether the food is poisonous (bitter) or not (sweet); whether the food has essential minerals (salty) or is past its 'sell by date ' (sour) or contains proteen (savory). Smell on the other hand is conected with emotional memmory.