Why do we have chemicals in our food?

[@yaynetwork1483]

THIS one sentence about says it all: Europe bans over 1300 chemicals from food including hormone altering pesticides, while the US bans only 9.

[@GodHandFemto]

It's just a different philosophy, Europe is more conservative and wants the ingredients proven to be safe and are extremely cautious of any ingredients that might have an issue, the US still regulates many chemicals but won't outright ban them because low enough doses are still useful for the recipes without having any measurable health downsides.

[@J.A.Z-TheMortal]

​@@GodHandFemtoSpoken like a true corporate representative.

[@ramochai]

@@GodHandFemtoOr maybe private hospitals need sick people to make profit.

[@henjin.]

@@J.A.Z-TheMortal What a very insightful response to his comment.

[@bartobruintjes7056]

@@GodHandFemto You are so funny that you believe yourself.🤣🤣🤣

[@marsha32lou]

frozen vegies, can beans, frozen fruit, oats are way cheaper than processed food. people need to learn to cook simple nutritious foods.

[@alexanderwindh4830]

Frozen Blu berries taste like chemicals when ready to eat.

[@pavitrabadri6214]

I 100% agree with you.

[@svhxxy8695]

The thing is you can’t find clean healthy ingredients in America in the first place

[@dimasirbu1538]

Come to the balkans and see

[@SH-vo5je]

@@svhxxy8695 I noticed this when I went to Florida from the UK. I'm plant-based and I was shocked to find the severely lack of choices in the local supermarket to the hotel and in restaurants, given how great the country is meant to be I expected to have loads of choice. I ended up coming back about 7lbs lighter because I barely ate while there for 2 weeks.

[@AdwoaHema]

I worked in food manufacturing and companies that buy the product would always ask us to find a way for our products to last longer. We flash freeze the food and had it last a year if kept frozen. They would ask us to find a way to make it be 24 months or longer which means more chemicals.

[@tazboy1934]

Crazy

[@yongchen4158]

Business sense last longer

[@darthvader5300]

Make them food corporate owners and their stockholders to EAT THEIR PRODUCTS FOR 7 YEARS FIRST before they decide to sell it and that includes CORRUPT FDA PEOPLE! Then we will see if they will approve it or not. Give them a dose of their own medicine and food!

[@darthvader5300]

@@tazboy1934 Make them food corporate owners and their stockholders to EAT THEIR PRODUCTS FOR 7 YEARS FIRST before they decide to sell it and that includes CORRUPT FDA PEOPLE! Then we will see if they will approve it or not. Give them a dose of their own medicine and food!

[@darthvader5300]

Make them food corporate owners and their stockholders to EAT THEIR PRODUCTS FOR 7 YEARS FIRST before they decide to sell it and that includes CORRUPT FDA PEOPLE! Then we will see if they will approve it or not. Give them a dose of their own medicine and food!

[@tbarbuto2345]

Pay the farmer now or the doctor later

[@sallauddin121]

❤❤

[@MyMySuper]

Farmers take all my money

[@frusia123]

​@@MyMySuperThey deserve it though. Their produce is keeping us all alive. The problem is that in our food system the farmers get very little, and a disproportionate percentage of profits goes to food corporations 😐

[@MyMySuper]

@@frusia123 yes. That's why farmers take all my money

[@NeVed1mKa]

I live in Europe. Do not have the same problem as amuricans

[@TCSGaming-qj2sw]

This should be a no-brainer. Probably the number one thing we could do is ban the harmful additives in these foods.

[@yangtse55]

Eat food not too much mostly plants Put Aldi veggies in pot add beans and canned tomatoes cook eat. Next.

[@kelliott7864]

The EU has banned many additives that are still legal in the U.S.

[@TCSGaming-qj2sw]

Exactly!@@kelliott7864

[@rickyayy]

Why is the US behind in this?

[@TCSGaming-qj2sw]

@@rickyayyI dunno. Also, why's Canada behind? O wait, probably because of USA.

[@nelsonv741]

12 years ago, I stopped eating all ultra processed foods and anything from animals and permanently lost 120 pounds, so far. 71 years old and never felt better!

[@Farquad76.547]

You don’t eat meat?

[@nelsonv741]

@@Farquad76.547 No I don't. I stick with the Grains, Vegetables and Fruits. I go to the gym and run the treadmill 6 days a week, and am on no pills either. All I can say is that it does take some effort to do this, but it is well worth it to me.

[@gm7304]

I'm only 4 years old eating clean and I'm 58 and have no heath issues "Yet" I made it in and out safely. I hope

[@nelsonv741]

@@gm7304 Added bonus: The bulk of what I eat are the so called complex carbohydrates, Rice, Lentils, Potatoes and these foods are really really inexpensive!

[@chiquita683]

Should add meat to be healthy

[@Hyperion1040]

The issue is not only with ultra processed food but also with packaging containing PAS/PFOAS, BFA, etc

[@gm7304]

Rock ON with that! same with warming things up in plastic containers ✋High Five!

[@radmod6908]

The issue is with both, correct

[@chow-chihuang4903]

I was gobsmacked when I read Consumer Reports latest test results for PFAS and phthalate content in packaged and fast foods. Some major offenders last time have improved, but some have not or gotten worse. I was majorly surprised by Chipotle burritos and plain Cheerios.

[@DivideandConquerAnti-WEF]

That's why we should grow our own food or buy from your local farmer. Never depend on these corporations or petrochem companies

[@ItsNeverTooHot4Leather]

Ultra-processed products are so cheap because they AREN'T ACTUALLY FOOD!!!

[@RBzee112]

UPF is just different combinations of grain, sugar and seed oil. Each receive massive government subsidies.

[@ItsNeverTooHot4Leather]

@@RBzee112 Try selling the Brooklyn Bridge instead. Name me an ultra-processed product that actually lists grain, sugar, and seed oil as its ingredients on the packaging. I'll wait..................

[@dennisp8520]

@@ItsNeverTooHot4Leather Pretty much every process food lists those three things. Except, in the listings its typically the scientific terms for them. So sugar will show up as stuff like Dextrose, Fructose, Glucose, etc. Grain will be things like wheat, barley, etc. Seed oil will be things like Canola Oil, Sunflower oil, etc. They may also use the term Vergiabtle oil generally then have like () to describe what it actually is

[@kiwitrainguy]

Exactly, it's just carbs with flavourings.@@dennisp8520

[@Striker50_]

Problem is: *Companies want you addicted* That ensures you're a returning customer...

[@alexc8512]

Sugar sugar sugar 😋

[@notabot2928]

Pharmaceutical industry too

[@jensenraylight8011]

despite their goal of making more money, they making less money than ever, while they're also poisoning their country food, killing themself and their future generation in the process, Irony

[@Striker50_]

@@droiddevx03 Buddy... There is a plethora of PhD neuroscientists and food scientists with billions $ in research getting people addicted from birth. The average person stands no chance

[@JDMNINJA851]

​@@droiddevx03 my brother is a food scientist. As he describes it, their job is to overwhelm your self control.

[@godbillion_nathan]

Well healthy food in my countries Eswatini and DR Congo is actually very cheap. chicken, beef, corn, vegetables and pork are 35% cheaper than processed foods such as cheese, butter. Fast food like KFC is even way more expensive. I always thought we were backward yet we live a much healthier life.

[@bartdoo5757]

Healthy food is pretty cheap in the United States too.

[@juanbertone1941]

I'm from Argentina and food here is also very cheap. Carrots cost $0.30/kg. Chicken breats $4.5/kg. Apples $1-2/kg. And so on. We live in a era where internet is in everywhere. You don't even have to go to the supermarket in order to have your fruits/veggies/meat/etc in your fridge. The supermarket comes to you. Just have to find the time and will to do it. That if you care about your health.

[@godbillion_nathan]

@@juanbertone1941 well personally we don't even buy vegetables in my family, we grow our own spinach, peppers, corn, cassava, carrots, onions, cabbage and beetroot and we don't use fertilizers or pesticides as most Swatis do. We also have our own chickens in our yard. The only things we buy from the supermarket are apples, grapes because we don't grow them in Eswatini and we also buy snacks, cooking oil and things we can't grow on our own. I wouldn't be able to survive in Western countries.

[@eastafrica1020]

Same in Uganda. You need to be very rich to buy processed or imported food.

[@craz4jaymz]

This is how it should be! Wonderful! But butter and cheese arent processed food especially real ones. ❤

[@Oscar-lu4ot]

Convenience is a killer. You need to prepare your own meals from raw ingredients to be sure as to what goes into your body. Stay safe peeps

[@nahor88]

Western work culture unfortunately has made that difficult. There simply isn't time to cook enough meals from raw ingredients, even if you prep and have leftovers. People are busy trying to make enough money to support their families. The food conglomerates know this and are taking advantage.

[@lightthatfire4012]

@@nahor88 true its an effect of feminism pysoping middle class women into the workforce and now people can't afford to go home.

[@adw6894]

​@@lightthatfire4012 Go pay stay-at-home women the same salary then. You can't just expect women to be locked at home to be your unpaid servants while keeping all the money for yourself, she has no income to protect herself when you cheat on her. Plus, unemployed women suffer domestic violence the most.

[@adw6894]

@@lightthatfire4012 Studies have shown that women in abusive relationships are more likely to be unemployed and earn less money than women with non-abusive partners. Not only physical abuse, but all so mental abuse, and financial abuse.

[@leptir7110]

Ne mozete doči do hrane u rinfuzi ako je sve zapakirano

[@FinWonderland]

Finally... Thanks CNBC for bringing this topic to light

[@vitoanania6042]

YES. don't eat processed foods, don't eat sugar. my father healed from diabetes type 2 in around 1 year. how?? intermittent fasting and low-carb.

[@bhappy5510]

so true

[@vitoanania6042]

@@bhappy5510 so many deaths and so much suffering are so avoidable

[@lostboy8084]

Then you will starve to death. You do know that picking fruits and vegetables is a process so lets assume you pick wild carrots or apples the minute you pick them it is a process, then lets say you wash them that is another process, then say you cut them that is another process. You are eating processed foods no matter what you are doing.. You could be more specific and say chemical processed foods but then again everything is basically a chemical 😂

[@vitoanania6042]

@@lostboy8084 in the context the term processed food is pretty clear, as opposed to whole foods. then of course some foods are more processed than others and even whole foods can be unhealthy (for example due to pesticides or some substances given to animals etc.)

[@2drealms196]

Its not just processed food, unlike in much of Europe and unlike 100 years ago even alot of our "whole foods", like chicken are adulterated. What they feed those chickens (1 example: reprocessing their own feces to feed back to the chicken), is kept hush hush by the poultry industry and pretty disgusting. They now use processed city sewage to fertilize crop fields, think of all the toxic chemicals dumped into city sewers, its going back into our food supply.

[@UQRXD]

Having worked in food processing. I can say the main reason for preservatives is. The machinery has so many places that are impossible to clean and the gunk that builds up they are added to kill bacteria. I have seen stuff taken apart that the smell would make you throw up. Cold cuts are the worst.

[@euniquemorris1361]

Thank you for this! I used to eat cold cuts 4 times a week. I stopped a few months ago.

[@ramochai]

05:18 Aha! Nobody should have to work multiple shifts, PERIOD. If we have 8 hours to work, 8 hours to sleep and 8 hours to ourselves, then we're more likely to make smart decisions on eating. But then the owner class on top would make less profits in that case, wouldn't they?

[@PsychologyNutshelled]

it clarify what I've learnt recently studying on them, "they are not FOOD, they are HIGHLY ENGINEERED EDIBLE COMPOUND" thank you.

[@SKYSTAR767]

England is the sister country to the USA when it comes to the high rate of cancer,diabetes and obesity following in third place is Australia.

[@Tritalas]

So, the Anglosphere in general.

[@plunktun2384]

Island nations like Cook Islands have worse obesity rates than the United States

[@PhillCurtis]

I travelled across italy this year. The quality of food was soo much better. Fresh is best. We can learn a lot in the UK. People are so reliant on cheap processed crap, which sadly has less flavour.

[@yaynetwork1483]

Best bread I ever had, in Milan.

[@Rbhawk3rd]

When there's a will, there's a way. When there's no will, there's nothing but excuses.

[@gm7304]

I had to freeze the screen to see how innocent and caring the mother bird is with her babies mouths open all natural at 7:16 Wow a Nestles logo advertisement I've never seen before. Look how peaceful they look. While people are dropping dead like fly's

[@adw6894]

Less people, more animals, more nature.

[@paulhayes6920]

Porridge oats/oatmeal made with half water and half milk. Add some milled linseed. Microwave for under three minutes. Pasta sauce made from pasata with veg (onions, courgette, pepper) 20 minutes. Lunch of a soup made from seasonal root veg and a stock cube. Takes about 30 minutes and makes over four portions. (A bag of carrots and parsnips cost about 50p). These are healthy, quick and cheap. You may not like them very much (my partner much prefers cocoa pops and fried chicken) but that isn't the point - eating healthy can be cheap.

[@carrained]

Vegetables are that cheap where you live?! Wow. I have a very restricted diet because of illness but carrot and parsnip I actually can eat and I love it but they both cost a LOT, veggies have gotten so expensive in my country that it's close to being a luxury. Sometimes we cook a meal and buy one vegetable LESS to be able to afford it.

[@CuteAnimalVideos2580]

Microwaving oatmeal? Heat that up properly in a saucepan or small pot

[@CuteAnimalVideos2580]

Ah also th stock cube is not healthy, it's a salt bomb. Better choice to make stock from dried veggies

[@caskettsolo7925]

From Bangalore, India - the tech valley of India. I totally understand the compulsion to have fast food- busy lives, ease of access, particularly through online food-delivery platforms - Swiggy, Zomato, etc. It's so easy to fall into the trap. Grateful to be in a home, with a grandmother who prepares every single meal and who's passed that onto us. I realised how compelled I felt to order food, and at that point mentally arguing with your self is taxing. Now, I've deleted both apps and take the time to meal prep, to educate myself, etc. But the thing is I feel with globalization, this might get to the point as it is in Western countries. Growing up abroad, school meals were always paired with processed juices, or a swiss-roll, and the day ended with a cup of warm milk topped up with Horlicks/Boost/Bournvita/Nido/Nesquik- who's ads would be targeted towards children via ad breaks on TV, etc. While people can make small steps towards improving their eating habits and their attitude towards food, educating children about nutrition, reading labels, preparing meals, financial education- either at home or school- would greatly benefit them and the future generation.

[@KingaStankiewicz-z9g]

Krótko, wyraźnie i bez zbędnych „smarków”!!! Dziękuję za przepis.

[@maxkingization]

When you work dusk till dawn, it's obviuosuly that you will not to be access searching the right type of food, and as a result obesity and overweight. It happened to me on my 29th, but fortunately I understood this and now I struggle with that issue by doing exercises and avoiding junky food. But, I have to admit that I feel a strong desire to eat some chips and chocolate from time to time. Take care of yourself and detach of unhealty food.

[@familialopes4955]

The complicated part of the discussion is that ultra-processed foods are cheaper because they last longer on the shelf, while healthy or natural foods are expensive because they last less time and are more difficult to obtain.

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

That's a relief. It is not just the U.S.

[@mistermoogle]

It sure looks like like we're the worst, though. We should be leading the charge to introduce better food regulations.

[@hkraytai]

It’s more of a first world problem.

[@charlesrodriguez7984]

@@mistermoogleI’m hoping that some better regulations come along in the first world as far as the food industry. However I don’t think that will happen….

[@charlesrodriguez7984]

I often get confused when people bring this up and always think man my country really sucks when most issues mentioned are there in fact (may not be as bad as fear mongering people think) but not just in the USA. However I’d still like to be able to eat my food without a worry it might be potentially harmful.

[@RayFromTheHayclan]

We exported it to other places.

[@Rocky12323]

Do people remember that lemonade is made with sugar. All nutrition comes down to be is eat everything in moderation. The added sugars aren’t gonna kill the average person, it’s the fact you consume it over and over again and don’t diversify your food.

[@benceze]

GMO is not the problem, it's really the processing (harmful chemicals) and packaging of food (micro plastics).

[@zahidriaz]

Our decision to leave the UK was influenced by this.

[@simongee8928]

One of the problem is that many folk feel whether rightly or wrongly, that they don't have the time to make informed choices in what they eat, or the time for the modest extra time the preparation takes.

[@duckmercy11]

Or that healthy food costs twice as much.

[@simongee8928]

​@@duckmercy11 Things that are marketed as 'healthy foods' will be expensive. It's being smart / informed enough to know the difference.

[@Rbhawk3rd]

Start growing your own food. I had an apartment. I grew my own vegetables or of storage bins. Got the hell out of the U.S. moved to Mexico and all of my diseases gone. I'm even if dialysis for over two years.

[@user33housecats]

It gets harder and harder for hard working people to find whole foods, produce is very expensive!

[@karenandrews4224]

Produce at farmers markets lasts 3x longer than

[@erdnati]

Human beings are natural creatures needing natural lifestyles to survive sensibly according to nature. Anything artificial interrupts the natural rhythm of the human and hence the question is heavily rhetorical. All of this because of the what that other natural thing said over 1,000 years ago: For the LOVE of money is the ROOT of ALL EVIL.

[@dennisp8520]

Natural doesn't equal healthy. Plenty of things that are natural in nature that will kill us

[@RahatAlamgirPorosh7148]

Make the economy bad enough that most people can't afford healthy food. And then make ultra processed food cheap enough that's all you can afford. The way food industry became so rich.

[@karenandrews4224]

Cook your own- start with fresh ingredients and eat 1-2 meals only per day. Humans weren’t designed to be surrounded by food 24/7

[@romanmrenka5430]

5:53, did she really think that inverstors (or better said lobbysts) really need to be in food quality table ? when their main interrest is maximalize revenue? this intererrest is never alligned with "providing healthy groceries" of population....

[@witchywoman165]

One huge red flag is how we have to pay more money to keep chemicals out of our food, like organic foods. You would think it would cost less to buy food with less stuff added to them. Why would it cost more to keep them out? It makes no sense when you would think the company has to pay more to add all these poisons to our foods.

[@jasonc3589]

Most U.S. foods are banned in other countries, I wonder why 🤔

[@TahoeJones]

Obviously because none of those other countries have deaths anymore.

[@MagicjavaGames]

Did you notice that this video was filmed in fucking London

[@PeaceNPassion50]

This video isn’t about the U.S.. Why do you feel the need to mention your country here?

[@XMG3]

one huge thing not mentioned in the video is cut down sugar, cut as much as you can

[@47db59]

Sugar is bad but it's replacement is even worse.

[@vlogswithchele]

not really dates, maple syrup and honey are pretty healthy

[@arrshath]

Brown sugar !!

[@antongavutti4376]

¼ what you eat make you alive ¾ what you eat make your laboratory clinic, doctors, pharmacy, hospital alive & RICH

[@manuelluna5695]

I prefer to make my own food. Many people apparently want to be Rich, you know, to buy in Starbucks, groceries stores, MacDonalds, fast food. so on.

[@OrdMandrell1]

If you have the free time to watch a CNBC video about ultra processed foods then it's likely that you won't suffer from any of the repercussions of overconsumption. Alas, the folks who really need to get the message will never watch this.

[@mack-uv6gn]

Veggies aren’t expensive by me. Cucumbers are .89 cents, celery 1.49 just the give an example. Bananas are .69 cents a pound, apples are a little on the high side.

[@Simpaulme]

Not sure cucumbers are so very nutritious, though i often have cucumber crudités as a starter - but certainly bananas are ridiculously cheap, and carrots, and potatoes, and frozen peas.

[@mack-uv6gn]

@@Simpaulme cucumbers are nutritious, google it.

[@r3dp1ll]

@@Simpaulme indeed. Fresh is best but then you can go for frozen or canned. And this is cheap.

[@paulmolyneux9503]

Per calorie, they’re comparatively extremely expensive

[@mack-uv6gn]

@@paulmolyneux9503 ?

[@sleric3]

bring investors into the equation. What a great idea! Everybody knows that their main concern is everyone's health rather than profits.

[@peterponcedeleon3368]

Unfortunately, big business infected big government, and they got together to make it very difficult to eat food the natural and healthy way. The cronyism forced us to eat packaged food. To eat, processed food. You can thank the department of agriculture, the department of commerce, and, all the utility commissions that make it almost impossible to live off the grid. I’m very happy to see people waking up to this. The government shrink.

[@etaokha4164]

My daughter refused eating school lunches because they're ultra processed so her teacher told me to make something at home for her so she can eat for lunch at school. I was so happy and yesterday was the very first time my daughter enjoyed her food in school because i cooked something she recognised and she told me she enjoyed her luch so much and the smile on my face lit because that was the first time my daughter eat her lunch because it was made from home and she recognised it. School dont feed kids healthy food because fast food or canned food are cheaper than cooking fresh. I looked at the school menu and almost everything on the menu is nothing healthy or appetising especially for small children who have hard time with foods or eating disorders. Things need to change really

[@vulcan4d]

Your brain doesn't want a salad, it wants a burger and a slurpy. It is a calorie game and the food industry takes advantage of this human desire.

[@LeilaLamb]

7:36 Wait, by 2028 Unilever are going to ensure 85% of the FOOD they sell is basically, food. Cook from scratch, people.

[@yaynetwork1483]

85% food, 15% chemicals, is what I think they meant, when even 1% chemicals is too much.

[@ZoeHoffman-qk1cm]

i used to fall into the lie that cooking at home and avoiding convenience foods took too much time and money- except when i actually started, i eas saving money. a week’s worth of lunch for me costs maybe 8 dollars now; whereas i was spending almost that much everyday on fast food or cheap microwave dinners for my lunch breaks. it’s all about budgeting, not wasting, and finding recipes that take less than 20 minutes (of which there are many healthy options).

[@eddyk564]

The problem with a lot of modern foods is that they're barely foods at all.

[@alpbakal369]

I'm so passionate about this topic. If you're interested as well and would Iike more information on this topic, I would recommend reading Ultraprocessed People by Chris van Tulleken, it's a great read!

[@balloonredd]

his video was recommended while watching this video. crazy

[@vikranttyagiRN]

​@@balloonreddyeah same. Its right here in recommendations

[@dramaticroses94]

Nice! I requested this book from my library

[@darthvader5300]

@@dramaticroses94I remember reading an old book printed in the early 1970s and it said that if you want to eat REAL HEALTHY FOODS then grow your own food in your garden or container gardens or both.

[@fearless6947]

or dr eric bergs youtube channel.

[@stevenlee2528]

Thanks CNBC for having the courage to speak about this topic❤❤❤

[@marvelbahroni]

Free palestine

[@mikehawk9397]

Even the food that is not super processed like raw meat and vegetables are still sprayed and loaded with chemicals. No matter what we do it’s all bad for us.

[@paquitoignacio3449]

To make it last longer and taste better, all kinds of food have some sort of chemicals on it.

[@SoapinTrucker]

Yeeeaaahhhhhhh..... That's kind of what the video is about.

[@lucianojanducci9907]

Avoid ultra processed food which is nothing more than junk food, instead prefer fresh fruits, natural juices, homemade meals and as important as drink enough water.

[@duckmercy11]

Except they cost twice as much and are half as filling.

[@graciousdignity7547]

You guys need to do some endeavours on intaking fresh vegetables and fruits as much as possible if you want to consume UPF or fastfood, such as pizza,hamburger,and fried chicken and other type of processed food for having a meal.

[@ArimaSenne1]

meat is perfectly healthy, the reason fastfood meats are causing obesity are due to the frying in rancid, oxidized oils. Do not cook with processed seed oils like "vegetable oil". You can just use Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, and Butter. The oldest people in the world usually cook with olive oil because that stuff makes you live forever.

[@eldum5786]

Esto deja a latam como un paraíso. This makes latam look like a paradise.

[@vooteimer1234]

Is poison bad I don't know I'm just little old CNBC

[@myblacksession]

Great job Idil Karsit 👏🏻

[@stuff4232]

people talk about price but when you look at some of the prices of these over processed foods it's more expensive. Snacks, candies, prepared meats, per lb is always more expensive.

[@duckmercy11]

Only when you buy them individually or if it's a high price brand like Oreo. There are low price brands like Little Debbie that sell boxes of snacks for super cheap.

[@realmarixstone]

This is all by design, especially in the U.S. where the majority of people don’t have time to prep their food due to their hectic schedule. And they’re just looking for a quick fix to hold them over that’s inexpensive. Even worse, besides all of the chemicals, is the fact that Americans make food entraining instead of making it about nutrition with all of these glutinous cooking shows etc…that get people addicted to food, rather than being sensible.

[@kenfarley957]

I don't eat any of that crap, and I haven't for 20 yrs now.

[@karenandrews4224]

Same. Simple is smart esp w diet

[@EricPham-gr8pg]

Don't let people know because they may quit office jobs and goes cook their own food

[@juliebrocklehurst-woods5247]

The problem with our food is that so much of it is heavily processed, removing most nutrients and fiber.

[@RudyTheInternetGod]

God's food is better than made man food. Love is stronger than pride🙏🏾

[@alisoninchausti1080]

Besides the issue of affordability and convenience, I think a food educational program for the general public would help change eating habits as people have unlearned a hell of a lot about food in the last 50-70 years. Currently most people in the Western world know as much about real food preparation as they know about hunting and gathering.

[@46464sahil]

Ultra processed foods are efficient to manufacture and cheaper to sale. For people that don't have time to cook and cant afford healthy options the choice is between eating unhealthy and reducing their lifespan vs starving at the end of month.

[@duckmercy11]

Exactly.

[@janmichaelchong]

I disagree. We became so lazy that even preparing a whole foods diet becomes a hard task. I work full time job. And alwaysake sure have time to cook for my kids from the scratch. It is time consuming but there is nothing more important in these world than a healthy body. People don't realise that until they ended up in hospital bed. Even then in a diabetic ward most patient will still ultra process food while being treated with sickness. So yeah no chance people will make better choice when they don't even have basic knowledge of nutrition.

[@ziljin]

Theres some easy changes you can make. Instead of candy as snack just eat nuts or fruit.

[@OakDM83]

Why? The reporter and the nutritionist never were shown why something was bad. I am a strong believer unprocessed food is always better, but don’t investigate an issue without an argument with facts and data. Being in healthcare reflective studies are not taken seriously. Where are the proactive blind studies? Investors should never be allowed to weigh in on the approach or standards in which a topic is judged. Investors by nature have a biased perspective and therefore need to be censored from scientific approach. I don’t disagree with this article, but I can’t agree with it either. We need to improve our investigative journalism and our threshold for teaching generations how to interpret data.

[@adityadas1590]

If u can't cook your own food u are doomed...

[@clarkisaac6372]

All because today's common diets and foods that we consume are produced by companies who aim down profit first in the industry, rather than public health.

[@Thaythichgiachanh262]

Thanks for all your great advice. I really enjoy watching your videos, they provide a lot of knowledge and are very helpful on a daily basis in choosing food when shopping, etc. Thank you ❤✨

[@lars2894]

That older British gentleman really knows what he is talking about. Pretty much the same stuff KZbinrs talk about, and media loves to censor in return.

[@multidimensional_holographer]

but what will be the economic impact on healthcare and pharmaceutical industry and overall GDP if people start eating healthy and less people get sick?

[@bartdoo5757]

Are you concerned with the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry or your health?

[@ildar5184]

Overall GDP would increase, as people would be getting less sick and would be able to work more years before retiring due to disabilities like diabetes. Also, the state budget would be in better condition, as the health system won't need as much financing to support all those disabled due to poor lifestyle. High obesity, heart disease and diabetes rates among population actually cost a lot of money for the state.

[@ericcarson342]

Adding stuff makes for cheaper food (longer shelf life). You have more people on this planet straining the finite resources (land) to grow food. We alter things like wheat, corn, soybeans, meat, dairy (subsidized by gov ) to grow more in less time. Corn syrup is a main ingredient to many foods. Many finished foods (crackers, cookies, etc) having more stuff added to last longer.

[@IamKlaus007]

Chemical food addiction is awful long term for the consumer and financially wonderful for the manufacturer. Making healthy food choices requires accurate information specific to ingredients. Laws need to be put in place to make this type of information mandatory.

[@callicordova4066]

Why do we have chemicals in our food? Greed.

[@Juwanisbas]

One reason Im not considering moving into a developed country is this, Id be forced to eat dead ultraprocessed food

[@LT-pp1je]

Don’t be ridiculous. Nobody can force you to eat. I buy fresh fruit, veggies and protein (meat, seafood). I cook my own food. Takes planning and work but I’m used to it.

[@Juwanisbas]

@@LT-pp1je Well, I look at bowels as part of my job and I see a very low incidence of diverticular disease, bowel cancers , and IBD etc when compared to infectious diseases In here-"The third world". The thing with infectious diseases is you could get rid of them quite easily, It could be genetics and hundred other things but my guess is its the diet. After all what's the point of life if you cannot"achieve" a satisfactory bowel movement first thing in the morning 😁

[@awesomebrotherhood7698]

I am baffled why so many people are unaware of what this video is providing, I believe that processed food nowadays is unhealthy, but one day it will not be. Right now, know that Sleep, Diet, and Exercise make wonders. But do know the best way to do those things. Scientists must figure out how to make packaged and long-shelled life foods healthy.

[@hmm5131]

5:27 - the food environment, spot on. It needs to change.

[@bartdoo5757]

You don't have to buy it.

[@nicholasbeck2649]

People make all this so dang complicated. Eating healthy is not difficult nor expensive. Whole grains like oats and quinoa, frozen vegetables, legumes and beans, are all really cheap. Fresh fruits and vegetables are only a bit pricier. Find easy dishes to cook from them. Not everything has to be some super involved recipe. On the other hand, the prices of prepackaged food and take out are constantly on the rise while shrinking in volume and quality and are guaranteed to wreak havoc on your health incurring even more costs.

[@JA238979]

To answer the title of this video, all foods are composed of chemicals -- and so are we. For example, water (dihydrogen oxide) is a chemical. I hope this helps!

[@andacomfeeuvou]

😳😳🤦‍♀🤦‍♀

[@lunar5674]

Genius, beetroot or bell peppers do not contain artificial food colourings like a box of cereal. These cause allergies in children etc etc etc..

[@JA238979]

ok@@lunar5674

[@jolenethiessen357]

​@@lunar5674They also contain chemicals. Oh, and I'm allergic to virtually all animal proteins and many plant-based foods, regardless of the level of processing.

[@YoungDeanTheOne]

I love how these so called health experts claim that artificial sweeteners “are really bad for us” but then there is zero scientific research that proves this, besides saying that they can lead to craving real sugar, which can actually be said for anything.

[@karenandrews4224]

You will pry my few Splendas in my am coffee from my cold dead hands…

[@giangkhanh2651]

mental bandwidth = how many tasks you can do at once or things you can concentrate on

[@kyungshim6483]

Great report. On a different subject altogether, I could bet $1,000 that this reporter is Turkish. I know many turks and they all sound like her.

[@mattpastula1562]

I get it, its a problem, but her starting off by saying she basically exclusively orders out or eats pre-made meals is a problem in and of itself.

[@jolenethiessen357]

My understanding of the economics of the UK (I'm Canadian) is that lots of flats don't have proper kitchen. So it makes sense for a single person in a small flat to eat lots of prepared meals..

[@chigginskeywest]

So they last. That's why

[@samselvakumarp]

Very simple - hyper palatable, shelf life, targeted marketing to kids - all for Profit, which means it’s worst for health

[@drabberfrog]

I don't think you understand what a chemical is, literally everything is a chemical, the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the fluid surrounding your eyeballs, everything is a chemical. Chemicals aren't bad.

[@willy4170]

Exactly, ignorant people get scared by big words.

[@jessip8654]

Oh please, you know what they mean. For example, Did you know that most grocery store "ice cream" can no longer legally be called ice cream because they're so stuffed with things that aren't cream? They're now all called "frozen dessert." Mmmm, I love me some frozen dessert made with Microcrystalline cellulose (wood pulp), Carrageenan (red seaweed, linked to many diseases) and Polysorbate 80 (who knows, but it does seem to tear up our guts). Ice cream doesn't even melt anymore, because it's all soy and corn oil. And I'm sure you'll be like, "well ice cream should be only eaten as a treat," ignoring that nearly all food is like this now. Why is there hydrolyzed soy protein in my chicken broth? Why does my cheese have natamycin, which is used to treat fungal infections? Why do supposedly simple foods have ingredients lists longer than my arm? What are all these hundreds of hard to pronounce ingredients? I'm so sick of the EvErYtHiNg iS a ChEmIcAl "gotchya" because it dismisses the fact that our food had become frankenfood that is literally killing millions of people.

[@drabberfrog]

@@jessip8654 first of all, all of those ingredients are approved in the US by the FDA and or the USDA and while obviously some foods aren't particularly healthy, they're also not dangerous. Organic chemistry compounds tend to be complicated and therefore have long chemical names but that doesn't mean that they're dangerous. Water's chemical name is dihydrogen monoxide, sugars are monosaccharides. A lot of food has corn syrup in it because corn is among the cheapest ways to make sugar. The bad part about corn syrup isn't the fact that it's processed but the fact that it has a lot of calories. That's kind of a common theme with processed food, the food itself isn't dangerous but the obesity it can cause if you eat too much of it is dangerous. Processed foods are less expensive which is what people want which is why obesity has become more common because people can afford enough food to make them obese. The weird ingredient names aren't the problem, the problem is people's ability to afford a ton of calories.

[@bartdoo5757]

The reporter can afford healthier options. Why doesn't she want them?

[@Sjalabais]

Calling the UPF sector the largest *manufacturing* industry in the UK really brings the point home. But I can't imagine a daily 14h food break to "let gut bacteria rest".

[@GurungyNoHamuster]

8pm to 10am is 14 hours. It's not impossible, although... I think exactly 14 hours is probably the ideal and not totally necessary.

[@michaelmartin1525]

Agreed, people need to pub crawling through the night into the wee hours.

[@coolidgedollar2154]

People do intermittent-fasting all the time, though -- usually 16 or even 18 hours per day, in fact. It gets much easier after a while.

[@annalieff-saxby568]

I breakfast at 10am, dine at 7pm, and don't snack. That's more than 14hrs, easy.

[@coolidgedollar2154]

@@annalieff-saxby568 I'm in Spain where meals trend a bit on the late side, so I eat at some point between 12 and 2pm, and then again before 8pm -- one is a big meal and the other one medium, whichever I feel like first. It has been going wonderfully for me.

[@mv3950]

I will never understand how people can eat foods that ressemble to nothing that can be found in nature and cannot identify what it is made with… not even talking about rainbow-colored foods or other crazy things, juste « vegan sausage » or breakfast cereals for example

[@strawberriesssssssssss]

Walk into an American gas station you'll find two actual foods: A banana and Mr.beast chocolate bars

[@Brainbaskit]

Chocolate bar is not fn food

[@ilyich.guatemala]

You guys have to learn of how to make home food from essentials - meat, potato, cabbage, carrot, onion... UK at least has Gordon Ramsey which wrote a book - 100 quick and easy recipes; frozen semi-finished products are much faster and easer to cook and cook from essentials takes much more time but in that case you know what do you eat and arguments like: have no time, tons of works.. lets be honest - we just lazy in most cases

[@saurabhodeyar7747]

you calling it food itself is wrong

[@jezalb2710]

Spot on

[@jezalb2710]

Edible substances

[@jtgd]

It’s food if you can eat and survive from it

[@carollynne5943]

Foodlike 😅

[@yaynetwork1483]

I always laugh at the signs on the side of the highway saying "Food", then listing McDonalds and the rest of the processed faux food chemical purveyors.

[@洪志忠-e8g]

Never go shopping in the supermarket ; just go to the farmers' market buying whole fresh foods to detox the injured body !

[@jbobdavis1984]

The reason why this is aloud is not only because it's profitable for the corporations, but it also, for the time being, keeps the millions and millions of poor employees busy.

[@sancharichatterjee56]

I am from India and I wish the FSSAI would look into such videos before putting approval marks on processed foods in our country

[@Burtejunior]

Ultra processed food is highly addicted the big companies want to you eat more and they will earn more money.

[@vutienvinh6580]

To trick people into addiction & eating as much as possible