Wednesday, June 26, 2024

For Food's Sake


In a perfect world, this would destroy the artificial food industry

Want to know how processed your food is? There's an algorithm for that
Jun 2023, phys.org

The fingerprint of food processing:

"In the paper what we do is really say that we believe that nutritional information, so the chemicals that are measured as nutrients in the nutritional facts, somehow encode the fingerprint of food processing," says Giulia Menichetti, senior research scientist at Northeastern's Network Science Institute and lead author of the research. "Because when we process a food, when we modify some staple ingredients, we change its chemistry in many different ways."

That "fingerprinting" is the way that researchers can glean insight into just how many chemical alterations have been made to a given food using the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies.

The machine learning classifier called FoodProX is from the Foodome project. 

The researchers note how the NOVA system, which splits foods into four classifications, from "unprocessed or minimally processed" to ultra-processed, is fundamentally limiting because it doesn't account for the different gradations of processing within each separate category.
More than 73% of the U.S. food system is ultra-processed. And tobacco companies own the food companies, in case you didn't know, like I didn't know. Companies never die, they only change their names, and the people who run them. Companies are transcendental intelligent entities, a sentient superorganism. In this case, it is a superorganism that is literally devouring the human population, eating the years off of our collective life expectancies in order to survive. Or are we all just cells that must be sloughed, part of a normal-functioning healthy system?

via Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University: Giulia Menichetti et al, Machine learning prediction of the degree of food processing, Nature Communications (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37457-1

(I believe the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University was the original home of the Barabasi Lab [link])


To Repeat: The food industry is really the tobacco industry in disguise, and that most Americans eat one extra meal a day in junk food.
--US tobacco companies selectively disseminated hyper-palatable foods into the US food system: Empirical evidence and current implications. TL Fazzino, D Jun, L Chollet-Hinton, K Bjorlie. Addiction v119i1pp62-71 Jan 2024, 08 September 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/add.16332
--Snacks contribute considerably to total dietary intakes among adults stratified by glycemia in the United States. K Heitman, CA Taylor, et al. PLoS Global Public Health. October 26, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000802

Bonus:
AI Art - Cigarette Food Robot Confusion - Three Ladies Smoking in the Kitchen - 2023

Image credit: Note the thumbnail image above, and how AI Art doesn't understand how we use our mouths, and anytime you want a picture of someone eating, or smoking a cigarette for that matter, it looks like this. Meanwhile, consider the these image generator models are trained on The Internet, which we all know is 99% porn. Now remove the porn images from the trained model, i.e., "unlearn" the porn, and this is what you get - a robot that doesn't understand what a mouth is. 


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