Just seeing a lot of articles about ultra processed foods lately and wondering.
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Think about it this way: Food companies want to sell you stuff. What makes you want to eat their stuff is whether it is delicious or not. So they opimise their food for deliciousness rather than good-for-you…-ness. In this process, they often find ways to make producing the food cheaper and the result more delicious, but that also means removing a lot of what would make it nutritious. Your average veggies just don’t taste like donuts or burgers. It’s mostly a byproduct of the fact healthy stuff doesn’t sell as well as unhealthy stuff.
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