Whole Grain Oats, Corn Starch, Sugar, Salt, Tripotassium Phosphate. Vitamin E (mixed tocopherols) Added to Preserve Freshness. Vitamins and Minerals: Calcium Carbonate, Iron and Zinc (mineral nutrients), Vitamin C (sodium ascorbate), A B Vitamin (niacinamide), Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride), Vitamin A (palmitate), Vitamin B1 (thiamin mononitrate), A B Vitamin (folic acid), Vitamin B12, Vitamin D3.
Everything after "Vitamins and Minerals" looks "complicated". But they are added to correct for dietary deficiencies caused primarily by poverty. If poor people ate the "uncomplicated" foods it would just be bringing back pellegra, goiters, rickets and various other diseases of malnutrition. They are successful public health interventions.
"Natural" food is a thing to individualize problems like health and ecology which can only be addressed collectively.
Trader joes has those things too fwiw. I just like that there is zero mention of preservatives. I feel like the American obesity epidemic is also due to the use or these preservatives and extra chemicals
I dont think pesticides are included on ingredients lists in any case.
Should not be fooled by the marketing of the "natural" food industry.
Example, Cheerios ingredients:
Everything after "Vitamins and Minerals" looks "complicated". But they are added to correct for dietary deficiencies caused primarily by poverty. If poor people ate the "uncomplicated" foods it would just be bringing back pellegra, goiters, rickets and various other diseases of malnutrition. They are successful public health interventions.
"Natural" food is a thing to individualize problems like health and ecology which can only be addressed collectively.
Trader joes has those things too fwiw. I just like that there is zero mention of preservatives. I feel like the American obesity epidemic is also due to the use or these preservatives and extra chemicals