What is Food Porn?
Food Porn is any type of media
that shows exceptionally delicious food. Close-up images of juicy, delicious
food in advertisements and it is displayed in such a way that just the way it
is spread out, or how the light hits it, leaves the observer going for more.
Do you Eat with Your Eyes?
The best food porn plays on the fact that the more indulgent a photo
appears, the more likely it will trigger our instinct to eat. "Food porn
relies on a phenomenon called supernormal
stimuli, which exaggerates qualities we're already hardwired to love,"
says Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D., an evolutionary psychologist at Harvard Medical
School's Behavioral Medicine Program and author of Waistland: The Revolutionary Science Behind Our Weight and Fitness
Crisis. Usually, that translates to visual cues
that a food is high in calories—things like pooling oils and the sheen of
sugar—which were coveted assets back in hunter-gatherer days, when calories
were harder to come by, says Barrett. That might explain why, according to a
recent study from 360i, a marketing firm that studies online trends, pictures
of desserts are the most likely to be shared online. Cheesy, oozy comfort foods
also get favorited more frequently on sites like Food Gawker and FoodPornDaily.
Based on one scientific research, not
getting enough sleep leaves you wide open to food porn's seduction. A study
in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism showed the
brain's hunger-and appetite-regulating center is more likely to be stimulated
by images of food when you're sleep-deprived.
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