From the archive: how we lost our sensory connection with food – and how to restore it

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  Hi,

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  I'm Bee Wilson and I'm the author of A Long Read which was published in 2022 called How We Lost Our Sensory Connection With Food and How to Restore It.

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  So this was a story I've been thinking about for a while and some of the moments that led me to write about it were working with a charity that I co-founded called TasteEd,

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  short for Taste Education,

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  which is all about teaching children to reconnect with food using their five senses.

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  And I kind of already knew before I started my tasted work that a lot of kids didn't have direct sensory knowledge of what we might think of as basic fruits and vegetables.

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  But it was only actually being in a classroom with nine 10 year old kids who would say things like,

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  I didn't know that a real peach doesn't look anything like a peach emoji.

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  And that was this comment that just stayed with me and kept sort of swirling around my mind or thinking,

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  wow,

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  we're just deprived in a sensory way when it comes to food to such a degree that we have these 2D cartoon images that mean more to us than an actual real peach or a real apple or a real tomato.

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  So really I was having lots of thoughts all at once that were coming from my observations of children,

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