Try not to offer a shaky piece of fruit to an attractive person – you get an ugly response.
A study shows that men and women who think they look good are more likely to find deformed fruit and fruit.
The reason is that self -identifying beautiful people feel more straight and believe that they deserve more perfectly looking food, say researchers at York University in Toronto, Canada.
They tested the reactions of 1200 people to crazy cucumbers, strawberries and aubergines.
Those who judged themselves as attractive were 50 percent more likely to avoid the ugly fruit and vegetables compared to average looking people.
“We have shown that higher self-sensitivity predicts increased aversion to deformed products, such as reflected in disgust reactions,” the researchers said.
A crazy strawberry. New research has shown that people who consider themselves attractive are more disgusting of strangely shaped fruit and fruit
Self -identifying beautiful people were 50 percent more likely to avoid the ugly fruit and vegetables, compared to average looking people, found the study (file photo)
“Disgust is well set as an evolutionary reaction that is designed to protect against unsafe food, but this reaction can sometimes be misunderstood, caused by harmless aesthetic abnormalities, as in the case of deformed products.”
The academics say that nearly 40 percent of consumer -driven food waste around the world is because people avoid deformed products.
Their studies are on the Social Science Research Network platform.
