Why do we have preferences towards certain foods?
Channel: Human Technopole
Date: 2022-05-23

🥗 Could we get more pleasure from eating a plain leaf salad instead of a chocolate cake?

🧬 The latest study by Nicola Pirastu of our Genomics Research Centre tries to understand the molecular and neuronal mechanisms dictating individual food liking. He found that food is not divided only into sweet and savory, and that food liking is not just how much we perceive the taste, but it's what happens in the brain after the taste is perceived.

🔬 We could imagine devising products which give the same amount of pleasure but with less calories, or having medications that help people with extreme obesity lose weight and have an healthier life.

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