Evolutionary Explanations Of Food Preference

Question 0

Bell

Answer 0

Sweet Foods:
Gave sweet foods to Eskimos (nothing in sweet in diet) They readily accepted it , suggesting an underlying human preference for sweet foods.

Question 1

Meiselman

Answer 1

Sweet Foods:
Found people of all ages and all cultures seem to prefer sweet taste to any other, suggesting it’s an inherited preference.

Question 2

Desor

Answer 2

Sweet Foods : observed facial expressions / sucking behaviour of babies. They liked sweet foods and disliked sour – suggests innate taste

Question 3

Stanford Study

Answer 3

Fatty Foods : chimps are brain and bone marrow first –highest calories

Question 4

Simmen

Answer 4

Bitter Foods : found 27 bitter receptors only 2 sweet suggests natural aversion to bitter foods because they are often toxic

Question 5

Frost

Answer 5

Food Neophobia : we tend to like food more as it becomes more familiar

Question 6

Wobber

Answer 6

Cooked Food :

Apes prefer meat, sweet potatoes, carrots ect. Better cooked