There ’s a reason you reach for the ice cream when you ’re feeling down . How we experience affect how food taste and what we hunger , according to a new study in the journalAppetite .
Food skill researchers from Cornell University surveyed 509 meeter at eight university hockey games across the season . The menage squad performed variably — in some game Cornell won , in others they lose , and in one , they wed . After each game , the researchers tested how dissimilar emotional states prompted by the team ’s performance convert how two samples of methamphetamine hydrochloride emollient taste . One glass emollient was salted caramel pretzel flavor , and the other was a lemon - calcium hydrate sorbet .
A observe - up survey define how much participants perceived the different smack ( mellisonant , piquant , caustic , sour , etc . ) and how much they liked the internal-combustion engine ointment . When the team advance and buff were happy , they smack sweetness more intensely , but when the team lost , they taste sourness more intensely . The gratifying event raise sweetness , while the disconfirming experience enhanced sourness . Flavor two , the sour Citrus limon - lime sorbet , was rated more extremely after a electropositive effect , and rated less pleasant after a loss .
“ A less liked food becomes less palatable in time of unhappiness and more toothsome in times of felicity , ” the research worker respect . “ It is potential that the diminished sweet and amplified sour chroma perceived under disconfirming emotions in this study could explain the compensatory increase breathing in and simultaneous preference for sweet , toothsome , and zip - dense foods ” seen during emotional eating , they indite . So when you ’re pitiful , you reach for water ice cream or something else sweet and delicious , because you ’re looking for food that wo n’t be ruined by your alteration in penchant .
And that ’s why no one tension eat kale after a breakup .
