New documentary shines a light on ultra-processed foods

Filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo are back with ‘Food, Inc. 2,’ which argues that additives from Big Food are manipulating our brains. Many of the food industry’s problems can perhaps be summed up by the humble buttered-popcorn jelly bean. Love or hate this sweet treat, its 1989 introduction was a chewy harbinger of food scientists’ ability to make any food taste like any other food. If a sugary candy could send savory signals to the brain, what else was possible?...