Presbyterian guilt.

Oh, I don't know.... oranges, apples, bananas, and watermelon (among numerous examples) are healthy foods, and they taste fine to me.

One word - FAT! Anything rich in taste has lots of that!

I don't really know, but it seems to work out that way.  The tastier it is, the worse it is for you.

Maybe it is because the human palate has many taste receptors... we all know the usual sweet, sour, salty, and bitter but there is actually a recpetor on our tongues for the "unami" flavor. That is characteristic for savory flavors... including MSG (used in many Asian dishes), it is a gluatamate receptor and recognizes the meatier flavors of food and as we know, meats have a lot of natural fats. This may also hold true for buttery and sugar packed foods. It also may very well have an evolutionary perspective, good foods, packed with high fat content provide necessary calorie counts for people to survive. But I tend to lean more with my first point.

Really? That's news to me. I love healthy foods. Although I think it has something to do with the seasoning on these things. The fattening snacks people like tend to contain the words: Juicy, cheesy, sweet, chocolatey, zesty, etc... On their packages. And to most people, those are what taste amazingly good to them. But are amazingly bad for them. Ah, the irony of life.

Maybe it is psychological because sometimes eating what you aren't meant to eat makes it taste better 'the forbidden fruit syndrome!' Or it could be because they put so many flavour enhancers in their products. But I tend to think that junk food isn't as bad as people think. It is only bad if you eat it in large quantities. Besides, I must disagree, health foods can taste just as nice. What about a good old home cooked meal, they are healthy but taste so nice!

I like natural foods, like fresh fruits and veggies. I eat it more often than anything else but then every once in a while I have to go crazy and eat like 4 pounds of chicken wings ;) If I were to eat the wings on a daily basis it wouldn't taste good tho.

Natures conspiracy is uncovered!

I have never met a hamburger or a twinkie that tastes as good as a fresh raw piece of yellowtail fish with wasabe. Strawberries and cream right from the garden and a cow beats a doughnut every time. I think we Americans are more attracted to food that is fast and fattening because of our lifestyle. Most of us, especially the younger set are just to damn lazy and dont understand or comprehend the fun in cooking and eating a truly fresh and healthy meal. That would take time and class. It is really that mentality we need to change.

Now see....an apple tastes to good to me for some reason. Oranges, too. For that matter, if you think about it, nearly every healthy food out there is great once you get used to eating it. It's funny...once you get used to wolfing down meats and vegetables and go to eat a hamburger or a bowl of rich chocolate ice cream, you find that those fatty foods taste a little strange.

Well, there are a few exceptions, such as blueberries. I agree that it's nature's way of messing with our minds.

Are you saying steak and potatoes are bad for you? Aw, man!

Most of them actually aren't. It's eating them in mass quantitiy that's actually bad for you.

I ask myself this a lot. I wish cake and ice cream were packed with packed with vitamins and low in fat.

Kind of a bad irony isn't it.

They use all these additives, preservatives and other fake ingredients to aquire to the consumers taste buds. Even those foods that are supposedly good for us are tampled with.

This is easy to answer. God loves you and wants you to join Him in heaven as soon as possible, so He makes certain that everything you could want to eat will hasten that happy day when you shuffle off this mortal coil.

I think it's god's way of messing with our minds... and our overweight guts

More importantly, why do the foods that are supposedly good for you taste like crap or have little to no taste at all?