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Why is fruit delicious?

• xxs 4y ago
  It contains sugars - easy to process and quite rare.
• empiricus 4y ago
  sugar
• taneq 4y ago
  From the plant's side, to get us to eat it, and from our side to get us to eat it.
  • pengaru 4y ago
    My question was intended to be rhetorical, but since you've spelled it out - isn't this the same explanation for why flowers are beautiful? Fruits are flowers before they can be eaten as fruit; if sugar is flavor candy, then flowers are the eye candy appetizer.
    • taneq 4y ago
      Yep, pretty much. Our sense of aesthetics is a heuristic for things associated with good/useful things, rather than the other way around. :)