The way I think of this is: "Food is not a linear combination of nutrients". The system is more complicated than that. It includes your body and the food supp

The way I think of this is: "Food is not a linear combination of nutrients". The system is more complicated than that. It includes your body and the food supply. Science is inherently reductionist (isolating variables), and in the case of nutrition, this can fail badly. The holistic view is more accurate. (Although, this is all relative to what has come before; there are of course basic nutritional deficiencies like lack of vitamin C causing scurvy.) I have to give credit to Michael Pollan for writing clearly about this over many years.