Short excerpt from a YouTube video conversation (Gut Health 101-5) featuring Aaron Hartman, MD and another speaker about processed foods, addictive hunger drives, and practical advice for choosing minimally processed items (e.g., short ingredient lists for bread and simple ingredients for packaged noodles).
A lot of processed foods are made in such a fashion to actually feed these addictive hunger drives that are innately in our brain systems. And that's, you know, but even in that world, kids still have the ability to appreciate, wow, this is unique and different and good.
We rarely have an issue with anybody not liking the food that we eat at home. That people appreciate a homemade meal even if they're 12 or 8 or whatever. We have not had much issue with that because we eat food that it's really yummy and we don't trick people into eating liver if they don't want to.
So labels, read them. Look for basic things. Look for things you recognize. Keep the list short. If you're doing bread, it should be four ingredients. If you're getting, you know, a box of noodles, it should be like lentils or germ wheat or whatever. It shouldn't be like a big paragraph of stuff.