Highly Processed Foods Can Be Considered Addictive Like Tobacco Products

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[–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

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Saying highly processed foods are bad and calling it a day is a little weak. We engineer food to make it taste better. It is the goal of every cook, every chef, every food manufacturer to produce a good tasting product. And we use science to do this.

Salt. Fat. Acid. Heat. Sugar. Chemical additives. These are some of our favorite food things.

u/melodic_programmer always gives me shit I use Knorr brand bouillon a lot. I use it because it has msg, disodium guanylate, and disodium inosinate. I add those to my salt as well. It makes things taste better than they otherwise would.

This boils down to: yes, we wouldn't overeat if our food tasted worse.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Imo highly processed foods do not taste better than foods cooked from scratch. They only taste better than the cardboard flavour they would have without the extra flavourings. They process foods to extend self life and reduce costs then have to process it some more to get people to actually eat it.

Also a whole of lot unhealthy people gorge themselves on the blandest foods, taste isn't what drives their eating habits.

[–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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highly processed

That's kinda a bullshit term.

do not taste better than foods cooked from scratch

Not when I do it, true, but everyone else, I dunno.

Also a whole of lot unhealthy people gorge themselves on the blandest foods, taste isn't what drives their eating habits.

I dunno am kinda too toasted to mount any sort of credible defense. Can I see more pics of you and your dog instead?