Here's a list of ingredients from Skippy Peanut Butter and you see that sugar is the second most common ingredient.

这有一份四季宝花生酱的配料表,你可以看到糖是含量第二多的原料

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Because there are a lot more chemical-sounding things in that list of ingredients than there are things that nature would recognize or we would ordinarily recognize as food.

因为配料单里的很多东西,看上去更像化学成分,而不是我们通常认为的自然物质,或者常规意义上的食物

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Well the fact is it could be hundreds of foods in the American food supply, and what's noteworthy about this particular list of ingredients, is that it's fifty-six entries long; fifty-six things in this particular food and we defined it as food.

实际上,答案可以是,几百种美国食品,值得注意的是,这张配料单,居然包含了五十六种配料,这种由五十六种物质构成的东西,而我们还将它定义为食品

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Now it's down the list of ingredients, it's actually toward the end, but if you look at the marketing of this and look at the can it says, there's fresh potatoes and carrots, but actually there's more sugar in this than there is carrots.

它在配料表的底部,几乎是在最后面,但如果你买东西时找到这个罐头,上会写着这里有新鲜的土豆和胡萝卜,但实际上其中糖要比胡萝卜多

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This is a food, a common food that most people would recognize, and I'd just like to see if you could guess what it is from the list of ingredients, so take a moment to look at the list of ingredients and then I'll see if you can guess.

这是一种食品,一种大多数人都见过的普通食品,我想看看,大家能否通过配料表猜出这是什么食品吗,所以,花点时间来看看这张配料表,看看大家能不能猜出来

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