“Ultra processing really makes the calories available because you have an effect, you've pre-digested the food… you have very, very little digestion… you get far more calories out of them”
“Ultra-processed foods tend to be very, very high in salt, sugar, and fat because they had no flavor once you've broken everything down. And so you engineer the flavor, which means that it is hitting those rewards”
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described that ultra-processed foods are engineered by adding high levels of sugar, salt and fat to replace lost flavor, making them hyper-palatable and driving over-eating
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“You add 2% salt ... they eat the sugar that's been leaking out because the salt has released it from the cabbage. ... you get all the acidity. And it's perfectly safe because they've made it so acid, nothing ... will live.”
“Every year, scientists are discovering interesting new flavor compounds… we can now teach bacteria how to help us make some of these flavor compounds.”
“He’s the unsung hero… engineering our own equipment… you couldn’t even accidentally put sugar in.”
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