No, it doesn't. They influence the FDA and it's "generally as safe" stuff.

Seriously, for that price you could eat real foodlike substances, perhaps even something that was in the ground more recently than it was in a factory.

Gotta disagree with the "no one will pay for it" part of your comment though. People can't get enough of anything that's bad for them! Most of them will sit there in their micro plastic shedding clothes, not getting exercise, under a UV light, smoking a cigarette while drinking alcohol and downing Tylenol and Advil by the bottle, while blasting their eyeballs with blue light and huffing VOCs before they ever touch a raddish.

The corporations setting prices are all in cahoots to put all the fat poor fucks on a diet, or criminalizing them if the people resort to stealing the overpriced junk food they're addicted to.