i’ve a thesis that certain meals let us release oxytocin (trust & comfort hormone)

came to think of this while eating fried onions with herbal salt in olive oil, which i added pasta sauce to, then added “ramen” noodles directly to.

feels like a hug from inside for a long time: so oxytocon (thesis)

so this all written… what are foods that feel like a hug to you?

  • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    America’s Test Kitchen “Comfort Food” book

    https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?query=America's+Test+Kitchen&ac=1&acp=america's+test+&fcsearchfield=author&ac.author=America's+Test+Kitchen&acpos=a1&fclanguages=en

    I’m providing you with the search-results, instead of that specific book ( if they have that specific one ) because you may find their anti-inflammatory-diet book more healing, which would reduce your felt-need for comfort, or you may prefer any one of the others, for whatever reason.

    See the whole set!

    They’re incredibly-good.

    “Cook’s Illustrated” magazine turned into them, years ago.

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    PS: the foods most-likely to feel like a hug to someone, are the foods that remind them of when they were too young to be drowning in anxiety/stress.

    No matter what they were.

    Those are the ones which are wired into our memory as being “before everything became more stressful/bad”, & that is one fundamental reason for “comfort food” category to exist in us.

    It was the insight of someone from India that pointed that one out to me, can’t remember what writing it was in, sorry.

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    • bluemoon@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      i think you’re spot on,

      but remember or know that not all people’s diets are inflammatory. so there isn’t necessarily something to fix in a diet like mine which hasn’t had sugar, alcohol, meat nor heavily processed food with added preservatives pesticides… for years. locally grown vegetables and ecological vegetarian restaurants are plentyful in european big cities.

      nor does the food i was served in my youth bring as much joy since it was a troubled youth with domestic abuse.

      so remember now that what you’re right about isn’t a silver bullet to release oxytocin during a meal. i’m leaving you an upvote =)