> but definitely do care about $14 free-range, organic eggs
Can you elaborate on why you think this is the case? Intuitively to me, most folks’ diets are going to be mostly cooked eggs which would reduce any effect on bacteria in the gut.
Sorry, I meant that as a proxy for “families that have the purchasing power to buy premium goods.” My intuition is that there’s a weak inverse relationship between food processing and food price, with less processing corresponding to healthier gut biota. But you’re right that the $14 eggs themselves probably don’t matter.
"Processing" is meaningless and largely a naturalistic fallacy; your biome definitely cares about what you eat, but not if it's been sliced up first, which is a kind of processing.
I don’t disagree. You can substitute “processed” for the “ultra processed” category in the NOVA scheme[1]. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with chopping up your apples before eating them.
Can you elaborate on why you think this is the case? Intuitively to me, most folks’ diets are going to be mostly cooked eggs which would reduce any effect on bacteria in the gut.