There’s an awesomely simple site called Visual Ingredients. Here’s what a yummy-as-heaven-when-you’re-a-kid Twinkie looks like:

Here’s the complete ingredient list:

1. Enriched Wheat Flour (enriched with ferrous sulfate (iron), B vitamins (niacin, thiamine mononitrate [B1], riboflavin [B2] and folic acid))
   Sugar
   Corn syrup
   Water
   High fructose corn syrup
   Vegetable and/or animal shortening (containing one or more of partially hydrogenated soybean, cottonseed or canola oil, and beef fat)
   Dextrose
   Whole eggs
   2% or less of:
   Modified corn starch
   Cellulose gum
   Whey
   Leavenings (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate)
   Salt
   Cornstarch
   Corn flour
   Corn syrup solids
   Mono and diglycerides
   Soy lecithin
   Polysorbate 60
   Dextrin
   Calcium caseinate
   Sodium stearol lactylate
   Wheat gluten
   Calcium sulfate
   Natural and artificial flavors
   Caramel color
   Sorbic acid (to retain freshness)
   Artificial color (yellow 5, red 40)

Source: Wikipedia.

Yummy!

By comparison, here’s what Broccoli looks like, on Visual Ingredients:

So simple. Reminds me of Michael Pollan’s rule for what constitutes food.

Or, as he famously put it: