Dopamine is not primarily involved in the pleasure or hedonic experience of food taste.

“misconceptions I think um the evidence is dopamine probably isn't so much involved in the pleasure of food that taste that's some The honic Experience um one reason we think this is because you can make mice the Richard paler did this decades ago that don't have any dopamine and they still show the same sort of effective responses to food so you put something sweet in their mouth they kind of they like it right”