Nearly half of the items analyzed also failed to meet at least one nutritional benchmark for children set by the World Health Organization and the Promotion Profile Model.
“Many parents may assume that products sold on the baby/toddler food aisles of their grocery stores have to meet certain nutrient standards. Our findings highlight that half of the toddler foods available in local grocery stores do not,” said Erin A. Hudson, lead author and science policy fellow with the American Society for Nutrition, in a press release.
One of the big fuck ups with nutritional values, is assuming we know everything.
It’s a problem with metrics in general, if people only care about metrics, then the system only works if everything is a metric. Because anything that’s not, is ignored.
With processed food, most of it is stripped out, then just “fortified” where only the metrics on the label are added back in.
Are we getting the most important parts? Almost definitely.
But we’re not getting all the trace amounts of other shit our bodies evolved to expect with it, and some of that might matter
Take PQQ as an example, seems to be an essential vitamin but nobody knows about it
Most scientists don’t seem to think so.
Rats fed with modified diets to not contain PQQ have reproductive problems, impaired growth, weak immune systems and poor coats
This is exactly on point for the discussion here, you don’t always die but you’re pretty sick without it