> Processed food is, in a sense, pre digested.

While true, this is also the case with all cooking, which makes it difficult to separate the various other things.

Don't get me wrong, the older I get the more negligence I see in corporations promoting their new things, so I'm now absolutely on-board with a cautious and conservative set of testing requirements for novel foods.

This is just to say that the boundary condition for such novelty isn't what most people think it is.