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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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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