Who Moved My Food?
It all started from a book I read, "The Backstage of Food Additives Production" written by a food additives former trading house top sales person.
In the book, he told how most of the pickles that available nowadays contain the most additives than any other food out there. The white powder — the chemical products — that contained inside the food has the least about nutrition, rather it's the magic powder that gives the consumer believes it tastes yummy, the manufacturers the wealth and the producers to turn all products into cheap and marketable imitations.
For instance, I used to look for salty plums but not available basically. This was more than 10 years back. Perhaps that time it had shown a trend that people were more towards "healthy thinking" than healthy food. Keep healthy by consume less the salt. WIth the healthy consciousness in demand, manufacturers cut off the salt ingredients, the rests are still the same. Furthermore, in order to make it more "tasty," more "white powders" were added into it in order to make it "taste-alike." The less salt, more tasty, people consume more than the necessities. This has caused us consume more additives eventually. Those "tasty food" has killed our sense of taste.
"Flavours" are what we got, not even an inch close to what the real food was. With the technology advancement, artificial products are rampant in the market. WIth the demand, there is a supply. Consumerism works both ways, never one-way traffic. It all comes from fussy and demanding consumers, which is us ourselves.
So, who to blame? No one but ourselves. The choice is in us. But, we need to know what we consume.
Try check out the label behind the product. Think of why the need to have so many mixture of additives but not even a real thing in the food would help us doubt of what we eat and what we let our family eat. It's the only way to keep us healthy, know what we are going to have when we buy.
