It's like watching people argue over which Bible translation is the "right" one -- it doesn't matter how much it matters to them, or how much it might actually matter to me. The whole exercise is enough to make me say fuck it and abandon food science to its own devices.

Or you do what I do and learn Hebrew and Greek and translate the sucker for yourself.

Not that I've ever considered doing that with food mind you. And around these parts, Pollan is kind of like his own deity, and I avoid those like the plague.