"Honestly, I'm a bit surprised that processed foods don't taste dramatically better than restaurant food" 1. Don't restaurants serve processed food, not to men

"Honestly, I'm a bit surprised that processed foods don't taste dramatically better than restaurant food" 1. Don't restaurants serve processed food, not to mention with fewer constraints since they don't shove the ingredient list in your face? 2. Who says the reason for a zillion weird ingredients is optimizing the consumer experience? Maybe it's actually a traditional way of trying to prevent competitors from duplicating a product? Recently, I've noticed an increasing number of products in mainstream US grocery stores that are more or less "processed food", but they have a small number of normal food-type ingredients, in dramatic contrast to those that are full of additives and weird stuff. Yet they aren't marketed as "organic" or otherwise suggestive of orthorexia.