[adolph]

> pressure on food manufacturers to make their products actually healthier

Probably not. Food manufacturing is not high margin. The things that would make "products actually healthier" are higher cost both in terms of inputs and in terms of shorter shelf life.

If people eat less and total sales volume decreases, there will not be additional money to change products lines. Expect corporate consolidation and a focus on children and glp-holdout populations, similar to cigarette manufacturers.

Similar to vapes, I could see the development of "ceremonial foods" that are chewed but not swallowed, like gum but with broader effects. Imagine something that approximates the experience of the crinkly bag, oily smell and physical crunch sensation of chips that then evaporates after the crunch. It would maybe even have a double bag for discretely spitting out the too small to crunch anymore shards of a saliva-phobic food grade meta-material.

[wolvoleo]

They'll just make the food more expensive. It's something they've been doing for decades, sneakily.

I remember the YORKIE bar which had the letters of the name stamped on each piece (it was a segmented chocolate bar).

Eventually someone in my house noticed the stamped letters were gone, turned out they moved to a smaller bar with only 5 segments. It was hard to notice otherwise.