iirc one purpose of food cravings is that the body knows, to a good extent, which foods contain which critical/currently-lacking nutrients, and that taste is on

iirc one purpose of food cravings is that the body knows, to a good extent, which foods contain which critical/currently-lacking nutrients, and that taste is one way for it to sense that. I wonder how reducing the role of taste will affect that. It might still be possible for the nutrients to be determined via the stomach, I guess, but taste/smell are good sensory pathways for quick chemical composition analysis (if I understand that correctly).