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Why does food taste better if it's been seasoned? I'm assuming that it's an evolutionary thing that food tastes nice, to incentivise our ancestors to keep eating, but why would seasoning make our brain release more of those chemicals if theres no nutritional value?

by /u/james1221432 in /r/askscience

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