The war on big food

Re:The war on big food by Shivetya on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @05:50AM (#9770591)

not only do they want simple ingredient lists with names they can recognize or even picture in their heads, for many consumers these specialty brands an easy way for them to fool themselves into believe they are being healthy. For some it may even fall into the category of luxury items, treating themselves. the food scares a few years ago with imported food from China probably has done some to move this market as well.

Yet it will be interesting to see what happens to people's choices when after years of moving to easy to understand foods their health doesn't improve. The one connection most of them haven't made is that it isn't necessarily the types of food they are eating but simply the volume especially related to their activity levels.

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Re:The war on big food by teekert on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @07:48AM (#9770926)

But it is easier to eat large volumes of pizza than broccoli as it lacks certain substances that make you eat more. There is also less salt in your home made tomato sauce (at least you have control over the amount.)

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Re:The war on big food by VLM on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @09:34AM (#9771413)

Sugar levels too. I've noticed pizza is a sweet desert now, whereas when I was a kid, pizza was herbal/savory. I've made homemade pizza that is herbal/savory and it was interesting, you can't buy pizza either frozen or delivery that doesn't have sickly sweet dough and sauce.

Some of the sauces are totally gross corn syrup ketchup level sweet.

Maximal processed food profit does occur when everything sold is a glazed donut, but when everything tastes like that, flavor and interest is lost.

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Re:The war on big food by Brakenshire on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @10:14AM (#9771697)

There was a BBC documentary about sugar a couple of months back. The WHO recommended limit for a daily dose of unbound sugar (that is, sugar that isn't bound in fibrous material in fruit and vegetables) is 6 teaspoons a day, and they had a single fizzy drink that had 18 spoons on its own, a ready meal with 12 tsps or a portion of noodles with 9 tsps.

https://youtu.be/_dqKmOLpofo?t=25m40s

The original poster on this comment thread is really wrong when he says that being able to trace back your food to standard ingredients will not help your health. It's extremely unlikely that someone cooking their own food would put 60g of sugar into their evening meal. Imagine cooking for a family of five, and putting a quarter of a kilo of sugar into the recipe!

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Re:The war on big food by phkahler on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @11:04AM (#9772065)

>> Yet it will be interesting to see what happens to people's choices when after years of moving to easy to understand foods their health doesn't improve.

So you don't believe any of it. It will be interesting to see what people attribute the increase in people's health to then. Just keep in mind that modern commercial medicine knows nothing about prevention - only treatments that are generally not cures. So if we see a drop in disease in 10 years, what will you attribute it to?

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