Contrary to popular belief, good-tasting food is not always delicious Foods A new study has shown that sweetened condensed milk, chocolate chip cookies and potato chips are unhealthy and can lead to obesity. However, it is possible for desirable tastes to not cause weight gain. Most people believe that good-tasting food is unhealthy. obesity This is false. “Good taste is what we choose to eat but not how many we eat over time,” stated Michael Tordoff, Monell Chemical Senses Center in the US. Researchers conducted a series experiments to determine the role of taste and overeating. Weight gain . The first thing they did was to establish that laboratory mice prefer food with non-nutritive sweetened or oily flavors. The mice were given two cups of food. One cup contained plain rodent food, while the other had sucralose mixed with it. They then gave the second group of mice the option of eating chow with no sweetener and almost all their meals from the cup containing sweetened or oily foods. This proved that laboratory mice are indeed able to eat non-caloric foods. Very appealing.

The three-part treatment was then given to new mice groups. diets For six weeks, three groups were fed plain chow; one group was given chow sweetened with sucralose and one was fed chow rich in mineral oil. Another experiment showed that mice fed high-fat diets made them obese. The mice fed this high-fat diet with sucralose were no more fat than those who were fed the plain diet. Tordoff stated that even though mice were given delicious diets for a long time, they didn’t gain extra weight. People believe that food must taste good if it is healthy. However, our research shows otherwise. It should be possible for foods to be both delicious and healthy. Healthy Tordoff said that the study was tasty and well-tasting. The study was published by the journal Physiology and Behaviour.