I recently learned vanillian has over 200 ingredients. I realize demand for natural vanilla is probably bad for the habitat, but I've no idea what those chemicals do, ingested singly, let alone how they may interact together, with digestive liquids.
Reality has all of them. But the quality competitors are expensive and this keeps it to a niche audience. Then you have the race to the bottom competition that does business in quantity over quality and likely the one you grab since you're also likely to value price over everything else.
They usually cut costs in unnoticeable for regular consumer way.
Like include some chemistry that easy to produce and makes it tasty, but bad for health.
I mean, private ownership by those who don't do the work or consume the product, yet get to make the decisions is to blame, yes. And that is capitalism by definition so... Capitalism is to blame....