Good stuff, man. I've been reading the ingredients list of food for years, and it's certainly a reality check. Sweeteners, palm oil, a looooong list of E-whatevers ingredients. Still eat too much stuff I shouldn't, like coke and impressive amounts of chocolate, but I do avoid some of the most questionable products (aside from Coke).

Good luck with the PhD.

You said the same thing about GOG and yet you are still here. :P

you have no idea what you're talking about, quit spewing BS that you know NOTHING about, please, that's how you got to where you are (just believing whatever BS was told to you)

The heck dude? Chill out and maybe post something with actual content.

The labeling I have seen come across as self-contradictions.

I have seen items like "Vegan Ham" or "Vegan Sushi." That right there is an oxymoron.

I also saw bizarre labels like "fat-free half and half" for milk or cream.

Also, people still call grilled foods "barbecue."

No. In fact it is legally accepted as a generic food type in the US: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2015-title21-vol2/xml/CFR-2015-title21-vol2-sec169-140.xml

You appear to be quite smart, however, you can't solve the equation without knowing concrete values of the parameters. We are not attempting to symbolically define calories in popcorn, that's not what we eat. For more information: see my second post about the errors in popped/raw corn nutrition labels.