It is said that healthy foods are usually not tasty
and not approved in the taste buds of many. There are of course will
stand and deny this. The health buff
will totally disagree in defense to say their foods are actually
delicious. But in most food-lover people,
there is something missing on the taste when eating healthy foods. There is this mechanism in our body that
every time we take tasty food, our brain says it is well done and we enjoyed
it. This could be the result of our accustomed
fascination when our mother and father pampered us when we were children by giving
the comfort foods we love, be it sweet, salty or fatty. This is their way to make us happy, to comfort
us, impress us and love us. So as
children, we were accustomed to love the taste of sweet and fats that whether
we admit it or not, are so attractive to the children and we have too much of
them in the form of processed foods. We
know how appetizing, yummy and appealing the foods in fine restaurants are, but
not the healthy foods that we cook in our own kitchen. This is because
these eateries, cafeterias, fine dining restaurant, brasseries and bistros,
catering and etcetera are using more ingredients as spices which is made up of
artificial preservatives and as we know any artificial is not healthy. This
gives us the assumption that tasty foods available in the market are not
healthy and healthy foods prepared in our kitchenette without flavoring and
seasoning are not tasty. Okay, it is not
all since there are few special restaurants serving real yummy healthy dishes. But
for the sake of argument, there are really more eateries that go with the flow
where the customers are. It is business as usual, if they are using these
additives is because it is for business’ sake of course.
If you love to eat delicious foods, if you are looking
the usual taste foods served in commercialized eateries, fancy, cozy and fine
dining restaurants, or if you simply enjoy food tripping, then it will be
difficult to appreciate my cooking and most likely you will never like my food
serves. I am not a big fan of meat which is contrary
to many that is why I have an insipid cooking. We know chicken breast is
less tasty than chicken thigh, liver and other red meat. While chicken soup is vapid
if without chicken cube and seasoning, and vegan menu seasoned by dried fish is
not tastier if not seasoned by meat. These are my dishes, cooked without
using meat and spices which makes far from expected taste of foods in
restaurants, catering, and etcetera. These restaurants have the
expertise to make the foods perfectly fit in the taste buds of the majority.
And let’s face it, majority of the food consumers are not health
conscious. As long as they find the taste is pretty good, they will
patronize it because people by nature love to eat. And these eating
places serve the traditional menu recipe’ that make the dish yummy and
fantastic in the universal taste buds. If you are the avid customer
of fast food stores, buffet and smorgasbord restaurant, pizza parlor, etc., you
will really not appreciate healthy foods. Unless it is in the restaurant
that offering healthy foods is their specialty, most restaurants are offering
foods that are on the category of unhealthy foods. They need to cook the
foods in various ways, ingredients and seasoning. The more ingredients to
mix the tastier and this is actually one of the reasons why healthy foods are
not well patronized – boring taste, aside from the cost. Knowing our
nature as human, we always want the pleasant and the best.
The foods that are not good to our health seem to have
the greatest appeal to the taste buds. Let’s
leave it with the children, as an adult we know what is good for us are those
called not tasty that most of us are not interested to eat. But this will not be difficult if we are actually
used of it. Yes it is if your perception
of taste bud is adapted in the sense of taste skewed by the modern food
industry. But if you are already into
healthy foods, without second thought you will not like the frankfurter, French
fries, instant foods, hamburgers, processed foods which contain high level of
sugar, salt and chemical flavoring. You
will not cook using additives, you will limit frying your foods. Maybe you will not crave for pastries, food
trip in famous fast food stores and fine dining restaurants. In summary, all these things are just a
matter of our choice and taste. Because
our biased perception about healthy food that it is often not tasty could be
due to poor taste – it could be on the part of the chef. And those that are good for us ma not taste
bad at all but they are just don’t have anything that would call enticing. It is a matter of taste perception dictated
by the giant food conglomerate.
By Alex V. Villamayor
December 28, 2015
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