The food industry is close to absurd. To cut costs the makes things barely edible, then spend a few millions in marketing[1] and another load of money in chemically compensated taste (fancy name to mean sugar+fat+salt, and colors).

ps: said that earlier, my body made me change diet, you discover a lot of sensations you don't sense with the average industrial diet (everything is fuzzed by sugar and fat). It's not easy though because you lack all the hoops all these sweet meals gave you before, and your brain crave them a lot. Without a change in culture/lifestyle and real constraints (disease) it seems impossible to achieve on long term.

[1] there's a research department in some English univ. dealing with consumer buying reflex optimization, they investigate the package-sound-crispiness / buying ratio