Assessment | Biopsychology | Comparative | Cognitive | Developmental | Language | Individual differences | Personality | Philosophy | Social |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |

Biological: Behavioural genetics · Evolutionary psychology · Neuroanatomy · Neurochemistry · Neuroendocrinology · Psychoneuroimmunology · Physiological Psychology · Psychopharmacology

A food craving is an intense desire to consume a specific food, as opposed to general hunger.

Food cravings are especially common in people following structured diet plans, and can be difficult to overcome ^{[citation needed]}. One theory is that when a person's body is deficient in a particular vitamin, mineral or other nutrient, they will crave foods which contain it - for example, a person who was deficient in Vitamin A might crave liver ^{[citation needed]}.

Foods with high levels of sugar glucose, such as chocolate, are more frequently craved than foods with lower sugar glucose, such as broccoli ^{[citation needed]}.

Food cravings are also commonly seen in pregnant women.

The craving of non-food items is called pica.

See alsoEdit

• Appetite
• Eating disordersTemplate:Food-stub