How Colors Affect Our Appetite By Melissa Brreyer

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Summary Paragraph: How colors affect your appetite is an article by Melissa Breyer which highlights a study that shows our how sight can affect our appetite and how various shades of colors affect our desires differently. Think about the pigment of the cuisine you eat every day. There are a lot of color of foods and we can find some blue things like some bluish on potatoes but the color blue isn’t a natural color of food. Our first instinct warns us to feel uncomfortable from blue colored food. Moreover, blue, purple, and black were “color cautionary emblems” of potentially mortal eatable. When food was colored blue, it made us lose our appetite and blue is also the most color that easily reduces our desire. Research supports the idea that

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