This whole issue is strange to me. There's an obvious link between 'ultraprocessed' food and just crap / barely-qualifies-as-food. Barely anyone here is talki

This whole issue is strange to me. There's an obvious link between 'ultraprocessed' food and just crap / barely-qualifies-as-food. Barely anyone here is talking about like, blending a salad up and drinking it for example. Theoretically, yes, you could extract all of the sugar out of lettuce and make something unhealthy. The typical stuff you think of is full of preservatives, is probably something quite sugary/wheaty to begin with (i.e. low nutritional content), etc. Is anyone _really_ surprised that honey nut cheerios are crap food? It's blatantly obviously a treat. I can't seriously consider that anyone would think it's a component of a healthy diet - you might want to eat it because it tastes nice and is fun, like a bag of crisps. It's the classic treat that a 5 year old might want.