alt Hacker NewsI'd be curious to know, with the reduction in size, if calorie density went up.
Because that would fit a lot of people's perception of how food is going: you get less, but what you do get is worse for you.
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leoc • today at 4:28 PM
I'd be relatively surprised if the Mars bar's calorie density went up after it was ruined in 2002. The old Mars bar was a beast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245791 .
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bluefirebrand • today at 4:28 PM
A lot of people feel like stuff tastes worse than it used to, too
That's obviously hard to measure because you can't do a blind taste test of a 20 year ago candy bar and one today, and people's tastes change as they get older. But worse ingredients making a worse flavor is possible too
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Potentially as a side effect. A lot of ingredients are switched to cheaper, often more processed substitutes.
For example, vegtable oil instead of olive oil, fructose corn syrup instead of honey or sugar.
Beyond that chainging composition to reduce amount of expensive ingredients. Think Pesto Genovese which is originally Parmesan, Basil, pine nuts, etc. Instead of only pine nuts, you now include other nuts for texture and only add a smaller amount for flavour (and worse add flavoring so customers don't notice too quickly).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22486545/