Reshaping the snack aisle
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Artificial Ingredients? Gen Z and Gen Alpha Are Done With Them
Parents are starting to pass on ultra-processed snacks and reach for options with simpler ingredient lists — often influenced by what their kids want to see on the label.
https://www.foodandwine.com/gen-z-gen-alpha-snacking-trends-11952838#&bytes=1
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Good news!
The only thing I question is this new emphasis on protein. They’re even adding it to bottled water!
Should be interesting to watch it play out. Aldi in particular has a lot of work to do - their packaged food lines have ingredients lists that read like science projects. Will the value-conscious Aldi shopper shop elsewhere? Or will Aldi shop for cleaner replacements?
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Good news!
The only thing I question is this new emphasis on protein. They’re even adding it to bottled water!
Should be interesting to watch it play out. Aldi in particular has a lot of work to do - their packaged food lines have ingredients lists that read like science projects. Will the value-conscious Aldi shopper shop elsewhere? Or will Aldi shop for cleaner replacements?
Or will Aldi shop for cleaner replacements?
They're already at it.
https://corporate.aldi.us/newsroom/news/aldi-eliminating-an-additional-44-ingredients
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Good news!
The only thing I question is this new emphasis on protein. They’re even adding it to bottled water!
Should be interesting to watch it play out. Aldi in particular has a lot of work to do - their packaged food lines have ingredients lists that read like science projects. Will the value-conscious Aldi shopper shop elsewhere? Or will Aldi shop for cleaner replacements?
The only thing I question is this new emphasis on protein. They’re even adding it to bottled water!
Yeah, and how long before we start hearing about the bad side effects of ingesting so much protein? It seems like replacing one extreme for another. Balance should be the aim.
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It depends. With my weightlifting regimen AI says I should be eating a couple hundred grams of protein a day, which is ridiculous. I generally don't get to 100 and I suspect my kidneys thank me for it.
But I'm all for getting rid of as many artificial ingredients as possible. My general rule is if I read the ingredients and there's something I don't recognize as food in its own right or as natural it goes back on the shelf.
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It depends. With my weightlifting regimen AI says I should be eating a couple hundred grams of protein a day, which is ridiculous. I generally don't get to 100 and I suspect my kidneys thank me for it.
But I'm all for getting rid of as many artificial ingredients as possible. My general rule is if I read the ingredients and there's something I don't recognize as food in its own right or as natural it goes back on the shelf.
AI stands for “average idiot” - the new term for “conventional wisdom”. The interwebs are chock full of random actors - mostly advertisers and “influencers“ - pushing additional protein. AI looks at the ratios and decides that extra protein is the way to go - all the cool kids are doing it!
Meanwhile, if you’ve looked in to the Mediterranean diet, blue zones and the seven country study you find that people who live a long time don’t eat anywhere near the amount if protein that the Average Idiot considers the minimum. Some protein yes, large amounts no.
OTOH it sells hamburgers so it can’t be all bad.
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I've said this before and I'll say it again-- the list of ingredients does not list all ingredients.
Having said that, out of a sense of depression, resulting from having to stare down a list of numbers, including a revolting upcoming payment to my cousin of 24k for her work as executor as defined by statue (revolting), and being caught off guard and strong armed by the probate attorney (technical, of course) after working with my attorney in Florida diligently for months and fully expecting a different process than the one that was shoved in my face, with a warning that it I didn't sign, the probate attorney would have to do more work and I'd receive less (I'm pissed off, it you couldn't tell),...
I decided, at least this once, to eat myself half to death.
And I did. And I didn't read labels.
I'll feel like death warmed over and I'll regret doing it.
But it's one of the ways I sometimes deal with stress. And that's what happened.
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