Food Is Engineered for Addiction

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🗃 Resources:: Dopamine Nation (2021)
2026-06-10

Food is manipulated by technicians around the world. Copious amounts of sugar, salt, and fat are added to much of the food we eat, as well as thousands of artificial flavors to satisfy our modern appetite for things like French toast ice cream and Thai tomato coconut bisque.

In 2014, Americans consumed 112.1 pounds of potatoes per person, of which only 33.5 pounds were fresh — the remaining 78.5 pounds were processed.