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Sounds like anti-intellectual bullshit

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I like how you're thinking. 🤔 How about we also remove like 90% of the ingredients? At least in American foods 😅 If the ingredient list on peanut butter only reads, "peanuts", people will actually read it. There's a Swedish cracker brand, Wasa, that is sold in America, and it actually only has like 3-4 ingredients in it, which is great!

Here's what I think would happen if this was done: 1. Shift from Quantity to Quality People would be more likely to assess food based on what's in it rather than how much energy it has. 2. Highly-processed food loses some of its pull. No more "low calorie" or "guilt-free" language on junk food. 3. Unintended Consequences - Could increase overconsumption of food - Could trigger new forms of eating disorders - Junk food companies would find ways to obfuscate bad ingredients or make them look healthier than they are (i. e. natural flavors) Since I've never looked at calories (even when I cut a TON of weight for wrestling), I don't see much use in them. Removing them would do more good than bad IMO, but a shift like that would require more education. nostr:note1gz2lq98z2hd0qg4lval847ze9pwcg3glj9z7ztk0rf53c6emgzcqhqcccj

I couldn't agree more! If it has a lot of ingredients and most of them are hieroglyphics, I'm avoiding it most of the time.