Navigating the Supermarket Aisles With Michael Pollan and Michael Moss | The New York Times
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2013
- Michael Pollan and Michael Moss visit a typical supermarket and talk about cooking and the food industry.
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i'd probably watch a full length feature with these 2, very interesting.
I would love to see a full documentary with these two! Great video!
I went to an asian supermarket and vegetables seafood , and fruits took up most of the store and there was a small area of processed foods
I'd love for our stores to have more produce... let me say I remember when soda rows were half the size. Why are we just drinking sugar water in America so much?
@@kampiestarz Go to farmers market then
@@krabbykrabby8818 we don't have one in my town since covid but we do have a local produce stand for summer. I also started going to Kroger more for my veggies.
@@kampiestarzugh. Our farmers market was shut down for Covid, until somebody used their brains, and opened it up. then it was the place to go for eggs and nearly everything else but coffee, sugar and TP.
After watching this I went to the fridge to check my yoghurt. And it's the last time that thing will be in my fridge.
It is wild how much sugar is in everything sold in stores.
I only buy plain yogurt now and sweeten it myself with honey or strawberry jam.
Hi Michael, You should do a super deep-dive into organic dairy and talk to milk inspectors across the country. Apparently, the organic dairy industry is completely unregulated. I won’t mention names or my source but a friend of mine had such a position with the USDA. He found rats in vats of organic milk. He told me of a particular dairy, owned by one of the major grocery chains in the country, whose ratings were consistently 100% for cleanliness.
🤢🤢 this is the reason I want to start my own small farm 🤢
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE!!!
I love this! I think Michael Pollan is wonderful!
You can tell they faced up before they filmed this. Looks so neat
Mike and Mike. Great to see them together in this collab!!! 😀😀😀😀
Great segment, thanks.
You can always get plain greek yogurt, even low fat and it has next to no sugar. It tastes more like sour cream though, but it will be way better for you (even healthier than sour cream).
Omg yeah lowfat plain yogurt tastes so bad. It's a cup of "why bother" lol. Prefer Greek or something.
Low fat is part of the problem though. I’m so glad I figured that out. Even one has to go down their own path, I know!
add some fruits etc. and you will have a great breakfast
In Bharat, we call it dahi
Great video! Really interesting!
Συμφωνώ απόλυτα - πολύ ενδιαφέρον.
Americans cook less because we have less time! I'm middle aged (over 40). When I was young, my mother didn't work outside the house. We were able to have a decent middle class lifestyle with just my father's income; one car, one TV, no cell phones, no Internet bills, & no cable TV. We kids played outside the house, our parents didn't have to drive us all over the place for activities, and we all ate dinner at the same time everyday. Life is very different today mainly because economics dictate it to be so. Both parents are working, our commutes are much longer and time consuming, we're splitting each dollar earned more ways than ever before, and mother's, the primary domestic overseer, don't have luxury of free time as they used to. They were simpler times, and I'd argue, better times. Life is far demanding than it used to be. We've gone backwards. BTW, in case you haven't noticed, the middle class in the US is now a minority, falling below 50%.
***** I'd enjoy responding in detail, but frankly, I haven't the time. Autonomy in American life is a near extinct aspiration. True, we allow to some degree, our lives and free time to be dictated by extraneous forces, but only a minority of it.
Co ops and local organic farmers are no where near me. (There are plenty of super fund sites though) And in my metro area, just the drive alone would consume way too much time and fuel, not to mention wear and tear on an aging car. Sadly, "the gardens" are all but gone from the "garden state", as well as a great majority of the farms, replaced with condos, town houses, and strip malls. Add to that the closing of many super markets, (A&P for one), and choice is limited, accessibility narrow, and organic far too often cost prohibitive.
TV? I Except for broadband, I cut the cable cord over a year ago and rarely watch TV. The whole "work to live" concept has been reversed in the last generation. And its not because we need/want expensive things like cars, homes, electronics, etc. Its the cost of life here; taxes, health insurance, car insurance, food, services, etc., that's killing us.
But you're correct about one thing. Many, including myself, feel powerless to change it. The solution is to leave this state, which so many with the opportunity to do so in the last decade have done. Not all of us have that that opportunity. Maybe, we're just not trying hard enough.
I agree with you. There is one way to cook more. Make a big batch of food on the weekend and freeze or refrigerate to heat and eat during the week. Microwave ovens help.
this is very true, I dont want to sound like a tankie, but the way the world capitalism is evolving it just sees that we are going to work more, have less free time, to be a part of this competitive market and we've reached a level where if you take time for yourself your a rendered a failure and lazy.
You said it perfectly!!
@@someguy2135 how bold to assume that everyone is off on the weekend.
I would love to see more.
Great video, cool how they shut down a whole supermarket to film! I want that influence!
I saw other people there
Somehow, I got the feeling that Moss did not agree on the frozen vegetables. ;)
Many don't. But I also don't get why. It's not like that stuff is precooked or anything... Yes, they do taste different than fresh vegetables but the freezing process still keeps the nutrients better. I e.g. have some peppers in my fridge that I bought yesterday. And I will cook them tomorrow. By then, there are probably almost no vitamins left in them.
frozen veggies contain 99% of good ingredients that fresh veggies have. Sorry, my English today is not good... but yeah, freezing is the best known form of processing food.
Fresh is better for nutrients, I always know the difference. But it's certainly still very good if it's just a pure ingredient without additives and not close to as bad as canned
I've changed my opinion ever since I started cooking all food myself.
I'll still use frozen peas, spinach and broccoli but stay away from e.g. carrots or mixed vegetables. They're just disgusting.
The nutrient loss isn't big enough to justify the taste and having seen some numbers where the loss actually isn't that big in the first couple of days, I suspect that companies selling frozen food cherry pick which foods and vitamins they use to promote how awesome frozen food is. There are even foods that contain lower concentrations of nutrients when frozen...
But @weetzybat - you can't "know" nutrients. You can only measure them. If you've got the lab equipment...
@notthere83 they've sent seamen to sea with just vitamins and it didn't work. The more food is removed from its fresh state the more vitality is lost. I don't care what anyone thinks they've proven about it with our current abilities of measurements because the results speak for themselves
@@notthere83 Both your assertions that 99% of vitamins are gone in fresh produce within days and that some have less nutrients when frozen are ridiculous. I'd like to know where you got ANY of this information.
Wonderful
Those two look cute grocery shopping together
love !
Fruit flavored cereal with no fruit in it and apple flavored cereal with no apple in it. Marshmallows were made from marshmallow plants now they make marshmallows without any actual marshmallow in it.
Interesting video. As far as the yogurt is concerned, the solution to that is to either buy plain yogurt or make your own. I make a quart of yogurt several times a week, and it only costs about $0.50
Bro how
@@kend7597 get whole milk boil it switch off the flame remove from stove .when the milk is lukewarm neither hot nor cold enough that ur finger gets warm feel mix 1/2 lemon juice to milk and mix put a lid or put in small containers and keep in warm place like inside oven and wait for overnight your yoghurt is ready
Thank you!!
Not hard to find plain Greek yogurt now thankfully
@@queenesther5358 Nice try but you are BSing. That isn't yogurt. That is fresh soft cheese. Yogurt is made with bacteria.
I agree!
I ate this video up so fast and want more of this two lads.
G E N U E Y N E
muy queridos
i always use plain yoghurt and mix it with honey if i need sweetness.
This is me at the supermarket 😂
3:32 Smooth bruv
NICE VIDEO! Trader Joe's sells a bag of frozen spinach, not the block they show here, for $1.49 a pound...great stuff...you can just GRAB a handful of frozen spinach and add to any soup or stew very quickly...just saying. Canned beans are pretty good for a "processed food" too if you can't make your own from dried beans.
Wish Trader Joe was all over USA 👵🏼🐞
Canned beans are more expensive and then it's sitting in tin which is toxic, and they line the can with BPA or some other ungodly compound then cook the food in it. I make an exception for sardines but if you can ever not eat canned, don't!
These two reminds me of that
Nick Kroll sketch “Too much Tuna”
There are some canned foods, like Libby's, that do not add salt or sugar to their peas, string beans, and corn. Just water. No BPA lining either. But usually, frozen is the way to go.
Canned is not good as if they are not using BPA they are using something else that is just not yet known how bad it is. You will always have contamination of the food with the can materials as they cook the food in the can. The only exception I make for canned food is sardines and tuna
@@weetzybat Glass containers are ideal for shelf stable products. Cartons are fine too, as long as you can recycle them.
Is it just me or does Michael Pollan remind me of Mike Erhmantrout? (If Erhmantrout was like 10 years younger)
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I always thought he looked like Richard Wiseman. =P
lol i got Larry david
so where is the full video?
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Yogurt. I also wrote a producer of honey and greek yogurt flavor why they STILL added sugar? Response, the consumers groups preferred sugar added and felt they have no choice. Who are these groups???
Shoppers rationalize their purchase of sugary yogurt. They think: "Probiotics are healthy. Yogurt has probiotics. Therefore yogurt is healthy." The video didn't mention that there is such a product as plain yogurt. For those of us who don't consume dairy, there is non dairy yogurt, but I have yet to find any that doesn't include excess sugar.
Fage has plain 0%
Most people realize that, they are showing you when sugar is added it's often a disgusting amount
@@weetzybat I agree about the amount. Since I made the OP, plain vegan yogurt has become a lot more common. I know of at least 3 stores that carry it. I always have some in the refrigerator. Progress!
@@soulpeaceartemk5859 Thanks. As usual, YT didn't notify me of your reply.
@@someguy2135 i completely forgot i even wrote that. i still love PLAIN yogurt but am discovering some nondairy also because that might even be lower in natural sugars- not sure?
Its sad that so many people need these two guys to tell them how to shop or eat.
They're right of course.
If the idea is to out sugar the opposition for more sugar then wouldn't there be a market for the opposite as well.
I didn't know there was so much sugar in yogurt...
am I the only one that doesn't like sugar that much?
Not the only one.
I don't like foods with added sugar, but I do like fruit.
Yeah although it’s just spinach it does any list the pesticides used.
where is this store located
Darshan Kanth Manhattan
@@nestum23 nope, brooklyn.
Ok, so all I can buy there is a box of frozen spinach, then?))))))))
What a truly great opportunity for powerful media and what a real shame at spending four minutes saying so little. Rather than leave viewers confused, it would be refreshing to learn more deeply.
3:30 - wtf, more and more people want less sugar in their yogurt, at least me and everyone I know. Is there a statistic for this? Have a brand actually sold LESS yogurt since it decided to add less sugar?
The entire point of that segment was that no brand has been willing to try which is why we're in the arms race for more sugar that many consumers don't want but no manufacturer is willing to lose.
Have you tried buying plain yogurt and adding fruit?
Most people have switched to Greek. Danons has a yogurt thats 80 cals and 15g of protein.
I find raw honey much sweeter than pasteurized honey, and only end up using a tiny bit of it when I mix with yogurt. I'm like you, not a huge fan of the sour taste. Mixing in some fresh fruit helps too
Someday this will be on a video called "Shopping in 2023" and young people in the comments will be whining about how much better life was back in the 2020s and that they wish they could live in that time.
It's just like they do on those 1970s/80s/90s videos where people in the comments have forgotten all of the bad things going on during those decades and they long to go back because they remember only the good parts.
People are watching too much TV, where advertising is ubiquitous for junk food.
Commas would do you so many favours.
Quite glad I don't have to live in US :D
Are you sure Jan? You are missing out on Lunchables.
Read the ingredients.
If they are there (ingredients), don't buy it.
Food doesn't need ingredients
a little poison is ok, actually. But, you need to be aware of the poison.
Moss isn't a very good listener.
Now with Joe and the Dems in charge i deserve to pay more for everything 😂
Walk in the Spirit so you do not fulfill the desires of the flesh
M. Pollan needs to drop the hammer with a bit more umph! I like him but he frustrates me. He's trying to be centrist in an issue where there is no center. Is a little poison OK?
I think not.
The dose makes the poison. On the other hand, some things, like transfats should be zero intake. I try to avoid all preservatives. Most people have a hard time limiting their intake of added salt, oil, and sugar and would be wise to avoid products that include them completely. Whole foods that include sugar, like fruit are good for you. Nuts and avocados include fat, but are good for you.
Salt is good for you. You will die without salt
+digitalsketchguy Salt is beneficial and I feel happy you mention this, because I value honesty, and that is a diet myth that salt is a hazardous substance.
I feel confident that salt is necessary because when the human body is stressed salt is an important part of our adrenal response.
Some people think that salt and sodium are the same thing yet they are not. Because the stuff some people may call "table salt" is a mix of chemically extracted pure sodium and toxic aluminum anti-caking agents.
They cause excess sodium in the blood and people then create (not "get") gout, arthritis, kidney stones, and gallstones ouch.
Beneficial salt I have found comes from Utah or the Himalayas from pollutant-free sea beds.
I haven't seen Joel Wallach yet, thanks for the suggestion I feel engaged to learn more.
Yes, and I've been applying Dr. Batmanhelidjh's work with the BodyTalk System the last 9 years.
And I have been using Kangen water for about the same amount of time.
When I read "they are killing us softly" I feel skeptical and cautious to subscribe to that belief system, because I have reassurance that only happens when people are not taking responsibility for what they think, feel, eat, consume, where they live, how they contribute to life, etc.
Want to help destroy the domination structure?
Learn BodyTalk, grow organic food, and inject empathy and humility into everything you do.
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Everything that's good for you is a problem when you take too much of it. Salt is an essential part of a human diet but too much salt is still bad for you.
therealnightwriter No? Take a table spoon of sea salt then, and see what happens. You won't be brainwashed ever again.
Wrong! Cola has at least 46 grams of sugar!
not oz by oz
Hes comparing serving size. If u scale up that yogurts serving size it will probs be slightly higher
@@ryand3rson math is too hard. Easier to read the confusing labels. 😂 I wish we would switch to a per 100g scale so people have a better sense of what they’re getting.
I've historically liked Pollan but this seems more like puff piece garbage than anything.
The yogurt example at the end in particular...they highlighted a (likely) 12oz tub of yogurt as having ~26g of sugar, equivalent to a Coke. They went on to highlight yogurt as a race to fill with sugar.
A 12oz can of Coke contains 39g of sugar, while Stoneyfield fruit on bottom 5oz contains 10g. Milk already contains a sizable amount of sugar (12g in a traditional 8oz serving), so unless he's harping on milk as a food source, asserting a quality yogurt is 'high' in sugar is absurd.
At 3:06 he says it has 21g of sugar per 6oz container. Scaled up that means it has 42g of sugar per 12oz container, which is more than Coca-Cola.
I’d be curious to know how much is added sugar, since yogurt is fermented, a process which ‘eats’ the milk sugar.
@@azlizzie pawned!
Is this... narrated by half as interesting??
seems racist
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Why?
the problem with these crappy processed foods are loaded with sugar, synthetic coloring, preservatives. The other problem is people don't know how to cook, they buy those awful processed food toss them in the microwave or oven and they think that's cooking.