Even if you’ve never heard the term “hyperpalatable food”, you probably know about these kinds of foods. They’re the ones that have been designed to taste so good that you have a hard time stopping once you start eating them. They also don’t make you feel full very quickly, even though they have a lot of calories.   I began thinking about these types of foods, and my own journey with them, after listening to an episode of Trevor Noah’s podcast that featured an interview with

I recently got a surprise gift card to the meal kit service Sunbasket  from work. Since I attended a benefits meeting and filled out a survey afterward, my name got entered in a raffle drawing for the gift card, and I won! (It makes me wonder how many other people filled out the survey, but I’m not complaining.)   I’m not generally into meal kit services, but as a free experiment, I was all for it. And as with most things, the experiment had some pros and cons.   Things that