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It is plastered on the bag under "Nutrition Facts." Whether you choose to eat nothing but flaming hot cheetos and die of painful gastroinstestinal related problems, or live an otherwise healthy life but eat cheetos occasionally is entirely up to you in this country. We don't need more handholding and coddling imo.


Which country is "this"? And do you also mind advertisement that's constantly trying to tell you what to eat? Or is it only the "handhonlding" that tells you how to not eat yourself to an early grave that's bothers you?

> It is plastered on the bag under "Nutrition Facts."

I don't have a bag handy, but I'm looking up nutrition facts online, and I can't see anything about the product being unhealthy ultra-processed shit:

https://www.cheetos.com/products/cheetos-crunchy-flamin-hot-...

What I can see is a list of ingredients:

> Enriched Corn Meal (Corn Meal, Ferrous Sulfate, Niacin, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Vegetable Oil (Corn, Canola, and/or Sunflower Oil), Flamin' Hot Seasoning (Maltodextrin [Made from Corn], Salt, Sugar, Monosodium Glutamate, Yeast Extract, Citric Acid, Artificial Color [Red 40 Lake, Yellow 6 Lake, Yellow 6, Yellow 5], Sunflower Oil, Cheddar Cheese [Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes], Onion Powder, Whey, Whey Protein Concentrate, Garlic Powder, Natural Flavor, Buttermilk, Sodium Diacetate, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate), and Salt. CONTAINS MILK INGREDIENTS.

Looks nutritious!


I see a lot of pretty standard ingredients here, what's your problem with them?


Just to skip over the pedantic wrangling over semantics here, can you tell me whether you think that Flamin' Hot Cheetos are a healthy snack? Because I think they're not and that's my main point. You tell me if you disagree with that and then I can tell you why I think that ingredients list is unhealthy.


Nothing. It's refuting the GGP (?) who said they were ultra processed unhealthy junk.




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