Why are ultra-processed meals so irresistible and the way have they arrive to dominate our meals tradition?

Documentary Irresistible: Why We Can’t Cease Consuming by medical physician and educational Dr Chris van Tulleken options interviews with former meals trade insiders who discuss brazenly about the best way wherein in style meals have been designed to be irresistible.

Meals firms go to extraordinary lengths to make sure their merchandise join with customers – utilizing mind scans to evaluate the deliciousness of ice-cream to fastidiously engineering the sound of a crunch. Extremely-processed meals are hyper-delicious and super-convenient, have lengthy shelf lives and could be cheap. However a rising physique of proof is linking these merchandise to our declining well being.

Is it actually our fault if we will’t cease consuming these meals? And may we modify our meals atmosphere for the higher?

8:35pm Tuesday, 4 February on SBS.