[majkinetor]

> Your brain wouldn’t know what to do with it, nutritionally speaking.

At first. If the food has nutrients that are important to the brain, it will recognize that in the future. There are animal experiment confirming this.

[Nevermark]

The term "acquired taste" quite literally means this.

We don't link a sensation initially, until our mind associates it with feeling good in some way. Then we like it.