[DigiEggz]

I think he's making fun of the arbitrary number that was originally given. Obviously healthy foods can have far more than four ingredients, such as dozens of spices (or really anything). I think many people want to be able to follow some sort of broad guideline in life and it frequently causes those to arrive at meaningless conclusions.

[rrr_oh_man]

Gotcha, thanks. I was utterly confused by this.

> I think many people want to be able to follow some sort of broad guideline in life and it frequently causes those to arrive at meaningless conclusions.

But it's just that, a broad guideline.

I think that only few people would not intuitively understand that seven types of fresh vegetables in a box is not the same as some meaty goo made from seven unpronouncable industrial ingredients with E-numbers attached.

HN types seem to like to nitpick a broader point by conjuring up edge cases.