Flavor: Why “Tasty” Shouldn’t Have to Mean “Unhealthy”
There is a narrative of payment that underlies the understanding of food and nutrition for a lot of us. The idea that good-tasting food must be unhealthy, must be high in sugars and fats, must be inherently “bad” for you in some way. That it has to cost you something to eat something tasty. That healthy foods are inherently bad-tasting and that unhealthy foods are inherently good-tasting. This leads to an emotional trap of guilt, where we feel guilty for eating the good-tasting unhealthy foods and annoyed when eating the bad-tasting healthy foods. This description of food as either “good” or “bad”, while sounding cartoonish and absurd to some, is something I see repeated again and again throughout society, consciously or unconsciously. It’s a lie.
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