This is it, 100%.
The perfect "food product" is one that is cheap to produce, tastes good, and never fills you up: cheap starchy food and HFCS products. People will always want to buy more (the insulin spike means it will only satisfy hunger very briefly, and then leave you hungrier a little while later), and even if the retail price is low, cost of production is ridiculously low so profit is made up for in volume --- low price is a bonus because this processed food is now a staple of poor households and "just a snack" in more affluent ones.
I knew a food chemist who worked on industrial production of food products and efficiency of manufacturing. Corn comes in, starches and sugars are extracted and mixed with binders, fillers, flavorings, etc. and a "snack product" is produced at a few cents per kilo. This stuff comes from food, and can be digested for calories, but I don't know if we shuld really call it food --- quasi-food, perhaps?
Since everyone is now wanting to lose weight but can't, because they are malnourished and addicted to junk, the NEW holy grail of food manufacturing is a product that has all the above characteristics but NO CALORIES: a tasty, digestible, calorie-free substance that people can gorge on guilt-free --- eat, s**t, rinse, repeat. It will make billions of dollars.
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Originally Posted by Indiana  The problem with 'the people who watch over nutrition in schools' is that they are funded by or reliant on substantial discounting from food-producing corporations. So there is a vested interest in promoting 'food products' over actual food. This is what happens when schools are underfunded - they have to turn to corporate interests to stay afloat. And those corporate interests are not in our waistlines, they're in the company bottom line. |