The dose makes the poison.
People weren't doing that at a mass scale before people figured out they could make money by increasing addictiveness, once technology was good enough.
People weren't doing that at a mass scale before people figured out they could make money by increasing addictiveness, once technology was good enough.
There are tons of products where the base ingredients are at least 2 steps away from actual traditional ingredients. Sometimes (frequently) the base ingredients aren't even food, they're purely petro-chemical based. My dad used to joke that the same plant that makes ingredients for paint and tires makes articial flavors for food :-)
Bah, I withdraw from this discussion. It's full of people that can't see the forest (ultra processed food everywhere destroying people's health through its addictiveness) for the trees (technicalities about some ultra processed foods being available in the pre-industrial era, on a much smaller scale and in much smaller niches).