I hope that your are gaining insights into global issues as you are preparing your presentation for Citizenship 2.
One of the ideas that I have when I was younger was...could processed food be the way to resolve global hunger and poverty? Processed food are relatively cheaper than fresh items, and they have a longer lifespan (weeks, months or years longer) than fresh food. Therefore it is more efficient to ship a large amount of can food to different parts of the world (esp the poorer ones).
That being said, I realised that there are other disadvantages to processed food too. Processed food contains large amount of sodium (element which is found in salt).
The table above contains a research done by researchers in America. It reflects that a higher amount of sodium are found in processed food as compared to fresh food prepared by restaurants.
So why does a high level of sodium matter? Researchers have shown that consuming large amount of salt leads to high blood pressure and heart diseases.
A even newer research shows that eating more processed food leads to a shorter lifespan (i.e. die earlier). https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2723626
Therefore, processed food may not be the best way to address global hunger until the high sodium level in processed food is resolved.
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