It’s just designed to be really, really cheap to make (so usually bad quality ingredients + sugar), sell for a premium based on marketing (often bullshit health claims like added vitamins c or just nice cartoons), sit on a shelf for ages without going rotten (lots of preservatives, or more sugar and definitely no fibre to help level out that sugar spike) and be very morish (more added sugar / caffeine / salt).
It’s a product designed by a big corporation to make them as much money as possible. At no point is anyone thinking about making food.
It’s hardly a surprise that it’s non-functional as actual nutrition, and equally unsurprising it’s going to make you ill.
It’s just designed to be really, really cheap to make (so usually bad quality ingredients + sugar), sell for a premium based on marketing (often bullshit health claims like added vitamins c or just nice cartoons), sit on a shelf for ages without going rotten (lots of preservatives, or more sugar and definitely no fibre to help level out that sugar spike) and be very morish (more added sugar / caffeine / salt).
It’s a product designed by a big corporation to make them as much money as possible. At no point is anyone thinking about making food.
It’s hardly a surprise that it’s non-functional as actual nutrition, and equally unsurprising it’s going to make you ill.
But some of it does taste pretty good.