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Real men don’t eat quiche, as the saying goes, and now science seems to have proven it.
A study has found large differences between the eating habits of the sexes: women prefer eggs and vegetables and men prefer red meat.
How and when we eat also varies. Men are more likely to skip breakfast, for example, as only 4.4 percent of men are hungry when they wake up, compared to twice that number of women.
Women were more likely to snack in the afternoon (34 percent compared to 26 percent of men) and eat more frequently: 35 percent ate five times a day, compared to 26 percent of men. the men.
Men are more likely to eat quickly (80 percent versus 64 percent) and more likely to eat alone and away from home.
Men are more likely to skip breakfast, for example, as only 4.4 percent of men are hungry when they wake up, compared to twice that number of women.
A study has found large differences between the eating habits of the sexes: women prefer eggs and vegetables and men prefer red meat
Men prefer salty and bitter flavors, while women prefer sweet flavors—a legacy of evolution, researchers suggest, thanks to millennia of men hunting meat while women gathered fruit.
Researchers believe that hormonal variations between the sexes also explain many of the differences.
For the study, published in the journal Frontiers In Nutrition, around 2,200 men and women between 30 and 45 years old were questioned about their eating habits and preferences.
Nine out of ten male participants in the study regularly ate red meat, compared to three quarters of women, who had a greater fondness for chocolate.
Dr Mauro Lombardo, professor of human nutrition at the Open University of Rome San Raffaele in Italy, who led the study, said: “Women have a much more anarchic approach to eating. They tend to eat a lot more between meals, skip meals and get dirty.
‘At the same time, they are much more aware of their food choices than men. Women know much more about the properties of different foods and which foods can harm them or be good for their health.
“I think these differences may also explain why low-calorie diets tend to be more effective for men than women. Our study shows nuanced differences between male and female dietary patterns.’