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by TulliusCicero 1227 days ago
It's really more like tasting good = evolutionarily useful.
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Which is true for sugar. It's good if you get a few grams of sugar while running around the forest all day. It's not good to get half a pound of sugar from big gulp softdrinks while you're sitting in traffic.
Not necessarily, even in the evolutionary biology model. Something can taste good to humans entirely by accident, and be evolutionarily neutral (or even a small amount negative). Just like the reason men have nipples.
This is probably more true of sweet-tasting poisons like lead diacetate than sugars.