"Certainly, when I started adding goose-poo-coloured dust to my breakfast, the unease I have been feeling around food culture deepened. Turning an already drab meal (plain vegan yoghurt, enough seeds to kill a gerbil) into what looked, and tasted, like mud felt more like self-harm than self-care. But, no, what pushed me over the edge was the tiny 2 Marks & Spencer sea moss shot. Sorry, not just sea moss: High-quality red algae sea moss high in iodine, vitamins C, B1, B6 and B12."
"Of course it did I'm not a limpet; I'm not supposed to consume sea moss! When did food become medicine? There's all the pseudoscientific supplementary stuff, but even normal food has started to feel functional, mere units of nutrition. A tally runs in my head of things I need to eat: am I getting enough oats, beans, leafy greens? What about nuts?"
The writer describes a growing unease with contemporary food culture, triggered by ingesting trendy health products like sea moss and hemp powder. Everyday meals have become nutritionally engineered tasks rather than sources of enjoyment, with an internal tally of required foods and nutrients. Common snacks and ingredients are chosen for metrics—macros, micronutrients, fibre and microbiome benefits—rather than taste. Social media and supermarkets amplify functional eating through prebiotic drinks, lion's mane snacks, GLP-1-friendly products and protein-marketed yoghurts. The result is anxiety-driven compliance, loss of culinary pleasure, and a sense of self-discipline masquerading as self-care.
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