Will Singapore’s ‘novel food’ dreams be ultra-processed?

ANY food that has a regular shape is likely highly processed and even “fake”, a college friend told me many years ago.

By then, I had already developed my own distaste for chicken nuggets and sausages, once I came to the unnerving conclusion that I couldn’t quite pinpoint what exactly was in them. So I could see his logic, yet his comment still shook me.

Those curved potato chips that come neatly stacked in a canister are another example, he said. To a self-confessed potato fiend, this realisation was far more devastating, and it was then that I found out these chips are made from dried potato flakes.