Why do children like sweets?

Answer 1

Kids love candy because it tastes sweet and the sensation they get from eating it makes them happy. An even more interesting question to consider however would be, do kids like candy because it tastes sweet or does candy taste sweet because kids like it. Candy or anything else that "tastes" sweet to us has no intrinsic reason to be sweet, I would argue that we evolved to like sweet things because those of us that did prefer to eat sweet things were rewarded (higher carbohydrates which led to better growth during puberty, increased ability to produce offspring). With problems like juvenile onset Diabetes however, don't be surprised if in the next 100,000 years, what tastes sweet to us is considered syrupy by our descendants. Gatorade might taste like soda to them and soda would taste like maple syrup. Survival of the fittest is still in play, let the games continue.

Answer 2

candy has sugar that kids cant get enough of . also the color full arangements atract the kids like bugs to the light in a dark room or something.

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Answer 3

because it tastes good

tastes very good

Answer 4

Children like sweets because it is the sugar and the sweetness they enjoy, whereas if they had an adults sweet for example a cough sweet they wouldn't like the taste.