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Visit Japan sometime. The packaged food is good and not heavily weighted towards the "sugar-cream" U.S. norms. Salty and umami flavors are preferred instead and you can pick up a decent example of it from any konbini, everywhere you go.

As the article says about aging, it's a collective problem. We are systematically encouraging ourselves at a large scale to consume take-out pizza and Coke.