# What is the most unnatural food you can name? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 15, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-unnatural-food-you-can-name/814222 "2018-05-15T15:21:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-unnatural-food-you-can-name/814222/61 "2018-05-16T11:26:14Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Those tropical chocolate bars we used to get in our c-rats or for that matter any boxes of modern MREs Tropical, as in higher melting point? I guess they must swap the cocoa butter with…other stuff. ---
**Author:** ![ASGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@ASGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-unnatural-food-you-can-name/814222/62 "2018-05-16T14:16:56Z")
I’m surprised this one hasn’t already come up: Processed American Cheese Food Product. I kid you not. It _does_ taste cheesy but with a name like that you have to wonder how. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-unnatural-food-you-can-name/814222/63 "2018-05-16T14:59:39Z")
Meh I regularly make process cheese food on my stovetop. Cheese + sodium citrate (sour salt) + milk or beer or whatever. The name is weird for sure but you can make your own Kraft Single equivalents with fancy cheese if you like. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-unnatural-food-you-can-name/814222/64 "2018-05-16T15:00:19Z")
Blue frosted animal cookies from Mother’s that come out around the 4th of July. Then watch the fun the next morning when their bathroom break produces fluorescent green poo. ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-unnatural-food-you-can-name/814222/65 "2018-05-16T17:53:21Z")
Mountain Dew. Gatorade. Rice Crispy Treats. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-unnatural-food-you-can-name/814222/66 "2018-05-16T18:08:22Z")
> [@ASGuy](#): > > I’m surprised this one hasn’t already come up: Processed American Cheese Food Product. > > I kid you not. It _does_ taste cheesy but with a name like that you have to wonder how. I mentioned Cheez Whiz early on, which is basically this, in a spray can. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-unnatural-food-you-can-name/814222/67 "2018-05-16T18:20:11Z")
Rock candy would be right up there. Nothing in nature prepares one to wish to stick large translucent mineral crystals in one’s mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-unnatural-food-you-can-name/814222/68 "2018-05-16T18:22:50Z")
Anybody come up with a working definition for what an _unnatural_ food is yet? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-unnatural-food-you-can-name/814222/69 "2018-05-16T18:54:39Z")
Well, here are few foods that some consider unnatural: 1. Modern domestic turkeys. They’ve been bred to have huge pecs to give more breast meat. As a result they can’t even reproduce without human assistance. 2. Most nut milks. They take a LOT of chemical processes to create the liquid beverage, and most of the vitamins and minerals need to be added. And a lot of the time, much protein from the nut is actually removed in order to make a palatable beverage. 3. Strains of beef bred to have double or more of the normal muscle fibers. 4. Foie Gras is made by force feeding geese a food so rich that the liver has to hypertrophy to compensate. 5. Many ‘baby carrots’ are made from larger carrots whose shapes are not aesthetically pleasing. So they’re ‘ground down’ to make the ‘baby’ version. Now, to me, those are ‘unnatural’. Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t eat them, though. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-unnatural-food-you-can-name/814222/70 "2018-05-16T19:34:00Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > A staple for the ancient Incans. Or at least, something very much like it. Incan’s mashed potato. Wow. j ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-unnatural-food-you-can-name/814222/71 "2018-05-16T22:38:08Z")
Well, whomever mentioned the insects, they would have recognized the concept of eating bugs. The other random stuff, giving it the sniff test if it smells remotely palatable, they probably would have no issue chowing down. Nutmilk, no, not difficult at all, mortar and pestle job, done it myself. All nut milk is really is nut paste thinned out and the chunkies filtered out. On my tablet so i dont have my cooking files, but searching Stefans Florilegium will produce years of discussion about Roman through Renaissance western, eastern europe, persian, and far eastern cooking discussion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-unnatural-food-you-can-name/814222.md?page=3)