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| Taste | 50% | 377 votes | Total: 759 votes | |
| Nutrition | 50% | 382 votes |
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Every kid knows the dismay of sitting down to dinner and seeing something unidentifiable on their plate. "Mom, what's this?" they ask, hoping against hope that it's edible. But ...read more
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We savor foods for the taste, and this applies to everything we eat, whether it's classified as healthy or not. An appetite is more or less defined as the normal, healthy antici...read more
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Health always is important - with any food. But let's face it, no one will eat food more than once or twice if it tastes bad. Well, let's make that 99% of all people will not ...read more
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by Petra Sando
I feel, that taste is definitely more important than nutrition, when it comes to health food. We know it, and so do the companies that produce the foods we eat. Just look at ...read more
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If food tastes good aren't we more likely to eat more of it? Taste is important and whilst it is always important to eat healthy, it is detriment that it tastes good. In this w...read more
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When it comes to a decision between taste and nutrition in health food, it's absolutely impossible to make up my mind. I realize the importance of nutritious food intake, but th...read more
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by Susan Derry
Lets be frank, if it tastes bad people are not going to eat it for long. There is only so much cardboard people are willing to chew on in the name of good health. Both nutri...read more
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by Bran Herbert
The answer here is taste, and the reason why may surprise you. In a perfect world, chocolate truffles or, for those rare chocolate haters, ice cream or cookies - would conta...read more
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The word health food gives it all away. Come on people if it is healthy it is health food is it not? So we already know it is nutritious but is it delicious? Let's face it if...read more
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by champaka
What is really a health food? It is quite a stuff which is very stuff question to answer. Isn't it so? Because health food may be nuts,grains,pulses,rice, wheat,fruits,vegetabl...read more
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by Duane Kuehn
Taste is by far the most important in considering food intake. The trick is to recognize that there need not be a conflict. Soy might be very good for you but your bod...read more
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Have you ever heard that "it tastes so bad, it must be good for you"? There is definitely a stigma that health food must taste badly if it is to be good for you. Therefore, when...read more
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Taste or Nutrition? As of today, 53% of those who were asked "Which is more important when it comes to health food: Taste or nutrition" here at helium answered "Nutrition". B...read more
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by Shelly Mcrae
The succulence of the tender chicken breast, seasoned with rubbed sage and earthy rosemary, grilled to perfection, spreads like liquid velvet across your tongue. The swift crunc...read more
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by Darryl Mah
At a time when obesity has become a prevalent problem in our society, we have become more health conscious. Fatty foods are out, making way for organic and more balanced meals. ...read more
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When it comes to trying to eat healthy, unless you are a hard-core dieter, you want something appetizing sitting in front of you. Telling someone who is trying to lose 100 pound...read more
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by veggie lover
Brussel sprouts, spinach and broccoli are wonderfully nutritious foods, but most children won't touch them. Their rejection of these veggies has nothing to do with nutritional v...read more
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by Kaye Gooding
This argument is pointless and this is why Proper health food is just eating properly, for example eating food with wholemeal flower instead of white, eating vegetables and f...read more
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by Zach Bigalke
When talking about "health food", one must assume that the food in question already has nutritional value. So, when choosing between two or more varieties of the same health foo...read more
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That all important taste is what encourages us to eat what is termed "wrong" food. We are all well educated in the nutritional factors of food but a lettuce leaf will never tas...read more
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by Schneider
Without a doubt, taste is a factor in any kind of food we eat. Most of us make food choices based on taste but the bottom line is that our bodies need fuel, and fuel equals nutr...read more
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by Betsey Foy
Once a certain food is labeled as "healthy", nutrition is the most important thing to consider. It is true that most people won't want to eat anything (nutritious or not) if i...read more
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by Kathy H
Nutrition and taste are equally important when it comes to eating anything not just health food. Since they are equally important, you have to then stop and ask yourself why you...read more
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Important to "health" food is nutrition; that's why we call it health food. Nutrition doesn't have to taste bad, however. Nutritious food can be wonderful if prepared with the r...read more
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Nutrition is paramount when looking for healthy food. Taste is important in a food item, we all want to enjoy our meals, but taste can be very misleading. Sugars and fats ar...read more
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by GURUNATH
I am an Indian vegetarian. Particularly south India. Thiruvalluvar, famous poet wrote 2000 years before in Tamil which means "When there is no feed to ears, stomach will also be...read more
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by Shawn Hudson
What do you prefer: air or sex? Well, I need air to breathe, and I need sex to procreate. This health food question is similar. Both nutrition and taste are important, but nutr...read more
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An agricultural expert told a group of us many years ago that nutrition starts in the soil. It does not surprise me that a number of generations have passed since a Congression...read more
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Nutrition simply is the process where all or most of the essential elements of the food are gathered in the main meal for the normal person. With the magical secret of keep it i...read more
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by Alyssa James
In the battle of Taste vs Nutrition, i think that it is most important to keep in mind what types of calories we are putting in our bodies. I think that when we start poll...read more
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by Fuad Murad
The problem with this question is that it uses a label which is commonly frowned upon by most. "Health foods" are usually described as being bland, tasteless, boring and someti...read more
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by Joey Cusmano
A nutritious body is all you need to live a long life, granted you die of natural causes. You don't need to be a health nut, but a bowl of all natural vanilla yogurt with granol...read more
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I always thought that if you eat health foods the idea behind them is how healthy they are. To me I like foods in the natural state with little or no seasoning so that the integ...read more
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If the true goal of one's diet is to eat healthy then it goes without saying that the nutritional value of a food is of paramount importance and that taste is secondary. But th...read more
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With the rising obesity rate and lower overall fitness in developed countries, it is obvious that healthy food is going to be important to our future. However, the questio...read more
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by Bill Whitney
If you ask all the thousands of obese people in the United States of American that question they would undoubtedly say taste. As long as it tastes good who cares about the calo...read more
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by Grace
Although taste is important and people are more likely to go for something that tastes good rather than something that is healthy, Nutrition is definitely way more important ove...read more
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Food is said to be the of the basic needs of man aside of course from water, air, and shelter. Without it we may never survive and do what we want to do. Food nourish not only o...read more
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by Lilyan N.
A well balanced diet is the best diet and is vitally important because it has a direct effect on your health. If you are not eating enough of the right kind of foods, your healt...read more
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Because we are referring to specifically 'health food' then obviously in this case nutrition is more important than taste. Tasty food appeals to our taste buds and also smells ...read more
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