A woman says she is “dismayed” by the state of the food system after assessing her diet.

In a post on the U.K. site Mums net’s “Am I Being Unreasonable?” forum, she shared that she spent the past week taking “a long, hard look” at the food she eats and “can’t believe how processed it is.”

“Protein ‘yoghurts’ that are just chemicals, bread that’s just plastic, spreads that sell themselves as butter but they’re mainly just chemicals,” the OP (original poster) complained.

“Where did we go so wrong with food?” she then asked, seemingly taking aim at the food industry.

The OP concluded her post by noting that it’s “so easy” to make homemade food from scratch, like rolls, loaves of bread and even butter.

“It just makes me so sad,” she said of what she deems the highly processed nature of food today.

In the comments section, the OP was given a reality check as many readers reminded her that she has “complete control” over her own diet and can make changes if she’s concerned that she’s eating too many processed foods.

“You can eat real food if you want,” one person wrote, while another agreed, saying, “You’re in charge of what you buy and what you choose to put in your mouth. It’s easy to change. What’s stopping you?”

Another commenter asked, “Why all the hand wringing?”

Someone else noted that many of her concerns were easy to address with simple changes, saying, “eat butter (no need to make your own!), not spread, buy better quality bread, embrace a diet with plenty of fruit and veg and cook from scratch so that you know exactly what you’re eating.”

Still, others agreed with the woman’s frustrations over the food system, with some noting that a lot of foods perceived as “healthy” are actually loaded with “additives.”

“It’s scary that it’s just the normal now,” the OP replied to one commenter. “Even things like bread is just plastic.”

“It’s very, very easy to eat a bunch of chemicals without realizing it,” another wrote, before sharing the many ways their health improved after changing their diet and cutting out most processed foods.

“The weight is coming off and my energy is coming back,” they said. “My skin has a ‘glow’ to it that I didn’t have 6-7 months ago when I started doing this. I’m in my 50s and not using any expensive creams at the moment. So something is definitely happening.”

Someone else said that the OP should not dwell on the past and instead focus on making positive diet changes for the future.

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“Yes, it is a bit of a shocker as you expect ultra-processed foods to be your snacks and ready meals and not necessarily staples like bread, dairy spreads and yogurt. But good for you to at least noticing and caring about it — as an awful lot of people don’t and then pay the price later down the line with their health.”

Someone else chimed in: “The food companies have made quite an ass out of all of us. Hopefully people are catching on now.”