> Unfortunately a vast section of the population are are classed poor or in poverty, and so cant afford anything better than wonder bread. This is why fortified foods were introduced in the first place.

Supermarket bread in Germany is very cheap, and looks a lot less suspicious than 'Wonderbread'. (Never having had Wonderbread, I can't tell anything more past the looks.) I don't the poverty argument: the US is a lot richer than Germany.

German supermarkets like Aldi and Lidl aren't charities: obviously they also use industrial processes to make bread really cheap and turn a profit. But given consumer preferences in Germany, you get something that looks like this https://www.aldi-nord.de/produkt/krustenbrot-7256-0-0.articl...

It's 1.49 Euro for 1kg of bread.

I can believe that this style of bread would be a lot more expensive in the US. It certainly is where I am living now in South East Asia. But that's not because of poverty, but because without widespread demand for 'real' bread you don't have the scale necessary for industrial production to make sense.

(And it's not like stuff like Wonderbread is illegal in Germany. You can buy fluffy white bread just fine, too, if you really want it.)

>Unfortunately a vast section of the population are are classed poor or in poverty, and so cant afford anything better than wonder bread.

I don't think that's the case. Both because poor people, in countries with lower wages and higher cost of living, still buy regular bread, and also because in the US that shit is also consumed by not-so-poor and middle class families too.

>Its not a conspiracy to make you think that chemically created foods are as good as naturally produced unprocessed foods, its so that people who cant afford or dont have access to healthy natural food dont get deseases like rickets, spinal conditions, or other growth mutations which are common from malnutrition.

I doubt this as well, since the "with vitamins" badges are also on food that's way beyond necessary spending, from gum to expensive "high end" "healthy" cereal, all the way to power drinks that cost as much as a Starbucks latte.

I'm not talking about official state sponsored/mandated programs to add some beneficial substances to food stuff for the general population (which of course is good).

> I doubt this as well, since the "with vitamins" badges are also on food that's way beyond necessary spending, from gum to expensive cereal, all the way to power drinks that cost as much as a Starbucks latte.

Well, I guess that's just basic marketing? Vitamins are approximately free to add, and some people are more likely to buy stuff that makes vitamin health claims, while approximately no one dislikes vitamins enough to stop buying a product because of vitamins in it.