Not Food: Time to Call Ultra-Processed Products by Their True Name
Abstract
:1. Introduction
“[Food] technologists appear to work in isolation from the real world…the technologists mostly inhale the ether of their own cleverness, in a trance over such new products as fake cheese, xanthan gum and counterfeit chocolate.”.Coleman McCarthy, New Republic, 1974 [1]
2. NOVA Food Classification
3. Food—Historical Meanings
4. The “Anthropocene” of Hyper-Processed Products
5. Astrofood—Mirroring the Mindset
“The traditional school dieticians and many special interest groups who advocate only orange juice, oatmeal, bacon and eggs, and milk for breakfast are making all kinds of noises about how we are ruining the next generation by teaching them to eat [Astrofood] cake.”Robert H. Cotton, Food Technologist, in Testimony to Congress, 1971 [42]
6. Food Day 1975, Mock Foods
“Food is not a commodity, it is not “stuff” put together mechanically and artificially in labs and factories. Food is life. Food holds the contributions of all beings that make the food web, and it holds the potential of maintaining and regenerating the web of life. Food also holds the potential for health and disease, depending on how it was grown and processed. Food is therefore the living currency of the web of life”.[65]
7. Ultra-Processed Harms
8. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Prescott, S.L.; Naik, A.; Logan, A.C. Not Food: Time to Call Ultra-Processed Products by Their True Name. Gastronomy 2024, 2, 47-56. https://doi.org/10.3390/gastronomy2020004
Prescott SL, Naik A, Logan AC. Not Food: Time to Call Ultra-Processed Products by Their True Name. Gastronomy. 2024; 2(2):47-56. https://doi.org/10.3390/gastronomy2020004
Chicago/Turabian StylePrescott, Susan L., Ashka Naik, and Alan C. Logan. 2024. "Not Food: Time to Call Ultra-Processed Products by Their True Name" Gastronomy 2, no. 2: 47-56. https://doi.org/10.3390/gastronomy2020004
APA StylePrescott, S. L., Naik, A., & Logan, A. C. (2024). Not Food: Time to Call Ultra-Processed Products by Their True Name. Gastronomy, 2(2), 47-56. https://doi.org/10.3390/gastronomy2020004