A taste for sweet — an anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins of why you’re programmed to love sugar

In nature, sweetness signals the presence of sugars, an excellent source of calories. So foragers able to perceive sweetness could detect whether sugar was present in potential foods, especially plants, and how much.
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