Nutrition articles and discussions often focus on refined ingredients. Half (maybe more) of all nutrition articles on the internet either damn sugar or praise a particular protein, fat, or special ingredient. My first years of “formal” training included lecithin, vitamin C, cod liver oil, inositol, cell lubricants and brain builders, and liquid amino acids. The concept is still around, with additions like vitamins D3 and K, replacements like refined types of oils (particularly omegas), yeast and bacterial cultures and specific protein supplements and exotic forms of traditionally rotted foods, or just their rotting agents.
One thing you might notice is the lack of food mentioned above. It existed, of course, and plenty of people built their diets around such things as the cabbage soup diet, banana and skim milk diet, Adkins diet, all of them stemming from variants of the strange ingredients in the first paragraph, plus crazes such as cereal grains, no fat, no eggs, no milk, no red meat, no fish, no meat at all, all fish, no cereal grains, soy milk, soy based, soy free, gluten free, sugar free, salt free, no MSG, no artificial ingredients and fortified, and other peculiar combinations of peculiar foods.
Of course, what you ate held less weight in many households than how you cooked it. You were variously allowed to fry nothing, boil nothing, only boil things, only slow cook things, flash fry or cook as briefly as possible. Sometimes you cooked in fat only (the era of fondue was great for that) or without fat entirely, in broth or completely dry, baked only or broiled only or steamed only.
Some folks might be dying of ingredients. My advice is to eat real food, as fresh as possible, with as much variety as possible. These subjects may come up again. And again.
Remember, the easier you can identify what it actually is, the healthier it probably is.
Finally, if you want to know what is included in the juice of one fresh squeezed lemon, here is a comprehensive list. Most of these ingredients are absolutely miniscule, but you need them! I may have missed a few, but imagine what your supplements are missing:
Water, Saturated Fat, Monounsaturated Fat, Polyunsaturated Fat, Cholesterol, Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Iron, Zinc, Copper, Selenium, Vitamin C, Vitamin A (RAE), Beta-Carotene, Alpha-Carotene, Cryptoxanthin, Lutein + Zeaxanthin, Vitamin D, Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol), Vitamin K, Vitamin B1 (Thiamin), Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), Vitamin B3 (Niacin), Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid), Vitamin B6, Vitamin B7 (Biotin), Folate (Vitamin B9), Choline, Carbohydrates, Dietary Fiber, Sugars, Protein, Ash, Sucrose, Glucose, Fructose, Butanoic Acid, Decanoic Acid, Dodecanoic Acid, Hexadecanoic Acid, Hexanoic Acid, Octadecanoic Acid, Octanoic Acid, Tetradecanoic Acid, Docosenoic Acid, Eicosenoic Acid, Hexadecenoic Acid, Octadecenoic Acid, Eicosatetraenoic Acid.
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