A meal tastes different when you aren’t scrolling through it. Try it once and see.

Taste depends on attention more than anyone admits. Eating while scrolling means the food arrives in a body that is somewhere else entirely, and twenty minutes later you can report what you watched but not what you ate. The flavor was there and you were not. Nothing about the meal needs to improve for this to change.

Eat one meal this week with the phone in another room, not just face down. Notice the first three mouthfuls specifically. If the silence is uncomfortable, eat it with somebody and talk, which is the older version of the same fix.