It's Full of Ingredients!

I was reminded of the above Linus van Pelt quote by this exercise in Luddite bulshytt (seen via Instapundit, who should really know better).

In any case, if you don't know that “ascorbic acid” (which sounds like it has cooties) is otherwise known as “vitamin C,” you are not qualified to be taken seriously on nutrition and if you know but won't say, you are a deliberate fraud. (I won't more than mention that citric acid is part of oxygen metabolism.)

By the way, where did the common assertion that processed food is something recent come from? It isn't. The same complaints are recycled every generation with just enough cosmetic changes to make them look new.