The Checkout Grocery Update: Processed Food Starter Kit.
A Brief Reading List for Fellow Grocery Nerds.
Greetings everyone.
Mike Tyson says processed food kills. He wants us to eat real food. He once ate a man’s ear. He now eats apples, at least on commercials.
If you are confused by Iron Mike channelling Michael Pollan, or empathize, while still being unsatisfied with this take on food choices…
If you want to dive a bit deeper into “processed food” and the in’s and out’s of what people buy and eat, what “processed food”, or more accurately ultraprocessed food is and does…
How public policy, consumer subsides and grocery market concentration impacts food quality, pricing and access/availability and ultimately choices…
Then you are in the right place! We got the goods.
Here is a brief reading list to get you started.
(And yes, eat apples too. But not ears. Peace.)
A Ten Point Program To Make America Healthier Than Ever
Reinventing Processed Foods (Forbes) Free Link
Where Americans Buy Groceries And Why
Why BFY Grocers Are The Biggest Story In Food
Woodmans Keeps The Promise (Of Industrial Food)
How Store Brands Conquered Grocery
Disconnected: Understanding the Consumer Gap With UPFs
How Pepsico and Walmart Rigged Grocery Prices
What The Mars-Kellanove Deal Will Really Cost Consumers (Forbes)
How To Make Food Affordable Again and Grocery Cartels 101
(And if any of our readers would like to help publish some of these essays in a book, please DM.)
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