Why Do We Eat Spoiled Food?
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Some of our very favorite foods are closer to this than this. That’s because coffee,bread, cheese, beer – even chocolate! – are home to millions of microbes. In fact, thesefoods only acquire the tastes, smells, and textures we love because of tiny bacteriaand fungi.The vast majority of microbes – about 99% – are actually quite harmless to humans.But the other 1% are nasty enough that our ancestors – and the ancestors of variousother mammals and birds – evolved a natural repulsion to stuff that might harbor nastygerms. In general, we think rotten stuff looks and smells disgusting, which, consideringwhat's at stake, isn’t overly cautious.Fortunately, if friendly microbes get to our food first, they can keep the bad guys atbay. Meat left out on ...
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Some of our very favorite foods are closer to this than this. That’s because coffee,bread, cheese, beer – even chocolate! – are home to millions of microbes. In fact, thesefoods only acquire the tastes, smells, and textures we love because of tiny bacteriaand fungi.The vast majority of microbes – about 99% – are actually quite harmless to humans.But the other 1% are nasty enough that our ancestors – and the ancestors of variousother mammals and birds – evolved a natural repulsion to stuff that might harbor nastygerms. In general, we think rotten stuff looks and smells disgusting, which, consideringwhat's at stake, isn’t overly cautious.Fortunately, if friendly microbes get to our food first, they can keep the bad guys atbay. Meat left out on ...
