How come most healthy food doesn't taste good?!
Answers: Maybe it would be much easier to get people eat healthy if healthy food tasted good.
Everything that tastes good is bad for health, but not necessarily every food that tastes bad is good for health too. For me, it is a matter of how your brain thinks, if it thinks that grass is delicious, you would eat it anyway.
The reason why healthy food doesn't that good is that it's lack of spices, essences, and or oil / fat. These things are usually the problem-maker for our health. Healthy foods are not exactly taste bad, they are simply lack of flavor.
From we were young, we have trained and spoiled our tongue to accept only food that tastes good. That's why it is hard for us to eat food that smells green, plain flavorless, fibrous, and sometimes look unfamiliar.
There's one Chinese saying that I find it very useful:
"Your mouth is the source of problems"
Why?
First, it is the food that you eat that determines your health. You eat junk food, you get bad health. You eat good food, you get good health. If you smoke and drink...you know the rest.
Second, it is what we say that changes how people think of you. If you like to swear, people would avoid you. If you speak good and decent, people likes you.
Lastly, here's an advice from my own.
"It takes only a few seconds to chew your food, once you swallowed it, you could immediately forget how it tasted"
No matter how good the food taste, it will eventually end up in the toilet.
it can, but your prolly eating the wrong kind of healthy food. Healthy foods need a lot of herbs and spices.
The stuff that tastes good is full of bad stuff! Healthy food sucks!
Well to some people healthy food taste good. It all really depends on what taste buds you have and what type of tastes you prefer. Well for some people they don't taste good but me personally. I love them, It would be nice if they tasted like chocolate or something though
maybe if you eat junk food often you feel that healthy food sucks!! but if you do like what i did, you would soon get used to it!!
Gd luck!
Most things that feel good or taste good are bad for you.
Yeah, it's harder work to make it taste good. And even then it doesn't fill the addictive drive that the bad stuff does. Seems like a cruel joke on humanity.
A healthy body craves healthy food. A polluted body craves polluted food. Sounds to me like your body needs some internal cellular-level cleansing. I found the best one to be the 30-day cleanse from Isagenix International. The products taste great, you'll gain lean muscle mass, you'll shed pounds and inches, and your energy level will explode! Oh yeah, you'll like the taste of healthy food, too.
Healthy food can taste great, it just depends on whom are the cook.
Organic food is much more tasty. Even tomatoes are so sweet and full of flavour. Tasty healthy food needs a bit of smart cooking, you have to know more recipes. And besides, taste must be educated to like the healthy food, but this is not difficult. And spices are healthy too, why not try to spice up your food more? Try some indian food, but not the kind of food with so much chilli and hot stuff, that's not exactly the real every-day indian food. That's what i heard :) I tried once indian food at a family, cooked by people from india, and the food was incredibly good, and healthy. It's mostly vegetarian. There is alot of vegetable, rice, whole grains, and also very healthy spices like garlic, herbs, turmeric. A lot of antioxidants. Good luck, hope you don't mind my advice :)
Because most of the "healthy food" doesn't contain the preservatives, artificial seasoning, and taste enhancers that "unhealthy food" have...he he....
it isnt actually about the taste (although your question is very valid)
its your brain knowing that what your eating is healthy and since we have all eaten candy and chocolate and know how good it tastes but always think about how unhealthy it is we actually tune ourselves into believing that what we are eating should taste bad.
if your a physically thinking that your food is tasting bad then try spicing it up a little bit with herbs and sauces. the possibilties are endless.
best wishes
You're gonna have different taste buds if you come from a diet entirely comprised of processed foods such as...
junk food, margarine, tv dinners, anything frozen, anything vacuum-sealed, anything canned, cured meats, fried foods, fast foods, carbonated beverages, non-dairy creamers, candy bars, etc.
When you make the switch cold-turkey (no pun intended) to healthier foods you're gonna shock the body and introduce foods that it's not used to. Your body may reject these foods altogether and it will be hard to get used to if you're already weaned on the previous foods.
For me, it's taken a lot of years to get used to whole wheat, edamame, seaweed salads, raw veggies and the like but it was a slooooow process and I still eat lean red meat just not in abundance. Just don't rush into it. Like everything else, it's all an acquired taste. I used to think mangoes were revolting but I eat them now like candy. Food tastes also change over the years so open yourself up to new things.
We only eat healthy food here at home, and if we eat unhealthy food (let's say fast food), it tastes like cardboard and makes us feel braindead within an hour. With fresh organic fruits + veggies, whole grains, high quality meat and dairy (especially grass-fed) your tastebuds should pop and your energy levels should be high. So your question is hard to answer, because healthy food tastes better! Just eat real food. Maybe you need a cookbook for some ideas to start with. A "real food" cookbook, not a "health food" cookbook.
But it does. I love tofu,beans,spinach....all veg, fruit - you have to be open to it. I make my own pizzas on wholemeal pita bread with tomato,basil, low fat feta cheese, olives - they are delicious. Stir-fry tofu and veg is delicious. One of my favourite meals is mashed potato(no butter, just plain yoghurt) topped with an egg, and surrounded by wilted spinach - yum!!!