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It generally tastes better cooked, or at least was different. For those who started doing it, they got the unknown benefit of more energy absorption leading to
by gibolt 6y ago
It generally tastes better cooked, or at least was different. For those who started doing it, they got the unknown benefit of more energy absorption leading to a long-term societal evolution to do so to most food (as they had a better survival chance).
- interator7 6y agoWouldn't it only have tasted better as a result of evolution selecting for gene lines that preferred cooked food(more efficient calorie intake)?
- vitus 6y agoNot necessarily! Due to chemical reactions, certain foods are sweeter, less bitter, and so forth when cooked. (e.g. onions caramelize, glucosinolates [0] in kale leach out when blanching) Evolution already predisposed us to like sugary foods (e.g. fruit) and dislike bitter ones [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucosinolate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucosinolate [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_taste_evolution#Toxins_as_the_primary_selective_force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_taste_evolution#Toxins_...