Why you’ll never crave a carrot. (but you could always eat a pizza).

Zoe (with a zed)
4 min readDec 27, 2020

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How your taste buds have been hijacked to want shit food.

Once upon a time, we humans ate food to sustain ourselves. You see, we are pretty amazing. We have sophisticated systems to enable us to perform our most essential task; find food for fuel. Our taste abilities have been shaped by the ecological niches our evolutionary ancestors occupied and by the nutrients they sought. They helped us to identify nutrients to survive.

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Zoe (with a zed)

Tea drinker. Permanent student of life. Perspective is everything. Thoughts become things. Think Wisely.