Why is junk food so addctive?
11 May 2023 · 1 min

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A short spoken excerpt from a YouTube video (speaker: Hal Elrod) explaining how food manufacturers use neuroscience research and product design to make junk food addictive. The speaker claims manufacturers have spent "billions" to learn how to combine taste and texture sensations (salty, sweet, creamy, crunchy) to strongly stimulate dopamine release, and that faster access (easy-to-open packaging) increases addiction risk.










