Studies from American Journal of Clinical Nutrition show 61% of American grocery store purchases are highly processed foods and 77% are highly or moderately processed foods. FDA studies show 60% of Foods in grocery stores have sugar added.

Most people just don’t understand/know what is and isn’t crap as you call it. But I think understanding what foods lead to metabolic disorders and chronic diseases, people would look at American grocers as peddlers of poison (of course they have a small percentage of healthy foods too).

Guess: you probably shop more around the outside of the store where you'll typically find the unprepared foods and probably don't shop for groceries at Walmart, maybe not even Safeway. I know it's true for me but not most Americans.

I suspect you might be just a little bit desensitized to what 'good food' is. Grocery stores sell products. They used to sell food.

> Grocery stores sell products. They used to sell food.

Walk only around the outside of the store and you'll be fine. Don't go down any aisle except for spices.

the only good food in the grocery store is

1) produce aisle

2) butcher

3) some dairy

4) a few dried base foods like oats, rice, and maybe beans.

The entire rest of the grocery store is tasty poison.

Hyperbole

It's difficult in the US to buy any kind of processed grain that doesn't have added sugar