Self-study
Support Studies reveal that most people select the foods they eat primarily on the basis of flavor, and that nutrition is usually a secondary concern at best. ████ ████████ ████ ██████ ███████ █████ ████ ████ ███████ ██ ███████████ ██████ ██ ███ █████████ █████ ██ ████ ██████████ ███ █████████ █████ █████ █████ ███ ██████ ████ ███ ██████████ ████ ████
Summarize Argument
The author concludes that health experts would be more successful at getting people to eat wholesome foods if they emphasized flavor over nutrition. This is based on studies showing that people generally choose what they eat based on flavor rather than nutrition.
Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that wholesome foods taste at least good enough that emphasizing their flavor would lead to people eating them more often. If wholesome foods don't taste good, and generally taste worse than less nutritious foods, then emphasizing their flavor might be a less effective strategy than emphasizing their nutritional value.
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a
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This doesn't strengthen the argument. This only tells us that most people are probably already eating some amount of wholesome foods, since people choose foods based primarily on taste. This doesn't tell us whether emphasizing the flavor of these foods will help nutritionists encourage people to eat even more wholesome foods. Since people are already aware of the flavor of these foods, maybe emphasizing the flavor will be less effective than emphasizing nutrition, since it isn't telling people anything new.
b
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This doesn't tell us anything new. We know people generally choose based on flavor more than nutrition.
c
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This doesn't strengthen the argument. Knowing that emphasizing nutrition has been moderately successful doesn't tell us whether emphasizing flavor will be even more successful.
d
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If anything, this would weaken the argument. If more nutritious foods are generally viewed as less flavorful than less nutritious foods, emphasizing the \"true\" taste of nutritious foods, which people already think isn't as good, might not encourage people to eat them more.
e
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This strengthens the argument. If people are more likely to try and enjoy foods they’re told are flavorful than foods they’re told are nutritious, it seems like a good idea for health experts to emphasize flavor over nutrition when encouraging people to eat wholesome foods.