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Harjas Sandhu's avatar

I've usually seen this concept discussed as hyperpalatability (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperpalatable_food).

Even just on an intuitive level, you already know which foods are and aren't hyperpalatable—there's a limit to how much bread you can eat in one sitting, but I think I could hork down two entire family-sized bags of Doritos before my body naturally stopped wanting to eat more.

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Luke Johnson's avatar

They are certainly closely related. There's a paper that covers this topic that I need to read next: "Ultraprocessed, hyper-palatable, and high energy density foods: Prevalence and distinction across 30 years in the United States" https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.23897

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