Why can't they make healthy food that tastes as good as fast foods?

You would be surprised that there is a lot of healthy food that taste waaaayyyy better than fast foods! It all depends on who makes it. It's like with any dish...there is someone that makes it taste better than the other. Many people tend to over cook vegetables or put the wrong seasonings with it. Even fruit, it can be over ripened or not ripe enough and it can affect the taste of the fruit because it is not at it's best quality. Also many people do not know how to cook and do not have the time to cook so they eat junk food and their body becomes use to it and it becomes delicious so when they do eat healthy it taste weird and foreign because the body is not use to natural or healthy. It is used to the steroids, processed junk, chemicals, additives...all of that yucky stuff.

Goes right along with my question, "Why is it that everything that tastes good, is bad for me?"

I suppose it has a lot to do with what you've been fed growing up. If you were raised on fruits and vegetables, then you probably appreciate the taste of them now. I would love to become a vegetarian but I can't imagine what I could make without any meat or dairy products that would satisfy my appetite! sigh...

You would be surprised how your tastes will change after eating healthy food after a while. And while I say healthy I don't mean alfalfa sprouts healthy. Just staying away from processed foods.

Depends on what you consider healthy food. The lipid hypothesis is still the cornerstone of most modern diets, and even the USDA food pyramid, but it is an utter load of horseshit. Chronic endothelial injury hypothesis should be considered far more heavily in diet and nutrition.

They can... "a healthy food product that also has mass appeal"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilberito

Because it's not addictive.

..... Wait, what?