A Study Links Musical Tastes With Food

Listening to a heavy metal song can make us want to eat a hamburger or fries more. It is one of the conclusions of a peculiar study that relates musical tastes with culinary ones.

Researchers at Miyagi University in Japan asked 800 people to listen to 20 songs from four genres: classical music, jazz, hip-hop and rock / heavy metal.

They were then asked to consider which of the 16 foods they wanted to eat, rating each from “not at all” to “a lot.”

Thus, they discovered that those who listened to classical music later preferred sweet foods, such as yogurt, chocolate or cereal bars.

Jazz songs like Take Five by Dave Brubeck and Walkin ‘ by Miles Davis made people enjoy tasty and healthy foods like soy burgers, seafood pasta or vegetable sandwiches.

This is the complete list of songs and foods that generate the most, divided by genres:

Jazz
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – Moanin ‘: Soy burger.
Dave Brubeck – Take Five: Veggie Sandwich.
Miles Davis – Walkin ‘: Vegetable Chips.
John Coltrane – Blue Train: Pasta with seafood.
Glen Gray – Moonlight Serenade: Soy burger.

Classical music
Edward Elgar – Salut d’amour, Op. 12: Chocolate bar.
Frederic Chopin – Nocturno Op. 9 No. 2: Milk Chocolate.
JS Bach – Air on the G string: Strawberry shake.
JS Bach – Jesus, Joy of Men: Yogurt.
Franz Liszt – Dream of love No. 3: Cereal bar

Hip hop
2Pac feat. Dr Dre – California Love: Beef Burger.
Kendrick Lamar – Humble: Steak sandwich.
Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin – I Like It: French fries (bag).
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Thrift Shop (ft Wanz): French fries (bagged).
DJ Khaled – Top Off (ft Jay Z, Future, Beyonce): Pasta with chicken.

Rock / Heavy
Iron Maiden – The Trooper: Potato chips.
Metallica – Master Of Puppets: Pasta with chicken.
Slayer – Angel Of Death: Beef burger.
Slipknot – Psycho-social: Meat sandwich.
Judas Priest – Painkiller: Beef burger.