Does comfort food really comfort us?
The Food Chain
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What Is Comfort Food?
The Oxford dictionary describes it as a food that provides consolation or a feeling of well-being typically having a high sugar or carbohydrate content and associated with childhood or home cooking. So some of us may have been reaching for more comfort food during the pandemic. I put the emphasis on some because other researchers repeated Sheerus work in the Netherlands and didn't find an association between comfort food and reduced feelings of loneliness. In fact the Dutch didn't have a comparable word for comfort food and perhaps that suggests something about the role and meaning of comfort food in other cultures.
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