Another Reason To Cook: Food Tastes Better When You Work For It

A few years ago on Planet Green, Kelly answered the question Why Cook? Now we can add another reason: a new study shows that the harder you work for your food, the better it tastes. Live Science reports:

When mice were given a choice between two foods — one food they had been made to work hard for, and another food they had acquired easily — they preferred the food that had been harder to get. And exertion made previously undesirable food tastier to the rodents.

Live Science continues:

While more work needs to be done to see if the finding applies to humans, it suggests low- calorie, perhaps unappetizing food, can be made to taste better if someone has to work hard for it, said study researcher Alexander Johnson of John Hopkins University in Baltimore.

There might be other reasons that a homemade meal tastes better than a microwaved frozen dinner, but we will add this to the list nonetheless.

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