Salad can hit as hard as dessert. Not by virtue. By design. When sugar, fat, crunch, and chili are tuned with intent, plant food can light up mesolimbic dopamine circuits almost like a sundae or a basket of wings.The bold claim is simple: reward is architecture, not destiny. Dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area respond to prediction error, not moral labels on food, so a salad that pairs ...More