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The Michael Pollan quote is actually:

"Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. (Sorry, but at this point Moms are as confused as the rest of us, which is why we have to go back a couple of generations, to a time before the advent of modern food products.) There are a great many foodlike items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn’t recognize as food (Go-Gurt? Breakfast-cereal bars? Nondairy creamer?); stay away from these."

All those foods that you mentioned, a 19th century mom would recognize as food. Just not her kind of food.

From here: http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/unhappy-meals/ (and his books of course)

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> All those foods that you mentioned, a 19th century mom would recognize as food.

Doubtful. I mean, the vegetables aren't cooked. That can't be healthy!

(Before anyone downvotes me: Look up how we used to cook vegetables. 'Boiled to a mush' just about sums it up. That's neither tasty nor healthy.)