[goosedragons]

More and more ultraprocessed foods. We never had such ready access to food filled with sugar/fat/salt and engineered to taste maximally good. Stuff like soda, potato chips and chocolate bars are barely 150 years old. Frozen foods are basically 70 years old.

[constantcrying]

How does this not apply to Japan as well? Surely soda and candy exists in Japan, they are even internationally known for having a diverse candy industry.

And the USA is eating less and less sugar since around 30 years.

[1ark]

Candy bags in Japan are small, 50g. Drink vending machines contain 50% green tea of different varieties. Domestically sweets are big, usually with sweet bean paste and so on.