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Since most of the products on the website a colourless powder of one variety or another having pictures of them are not very illuminating. Like a picture of sugar doesn't help you figure out whether it is sugar or salt. It is a website for people into sports that care about the precise chemicals they ingest, which visual inspection means very little.
Feel free to be weirded out about it, it is a little weird. The question is, is it a bad idea. Would you convince me to not buy it?
No, I wouldn't convince you not to buy it. They're my snobbish food heuristics, not yours; only me and the people I cook for need live with them. But all my food-related algorithms together are, I'm told, doing something right...
Out of curiousity, If they came in pill form would the same heuristics kick in?
I suppose I am trying to say I wouldn't eat the stuff for pleasure, but because it gives me nutrients in a convenient form I stick it in the same category as vitamins.
If they came in pill form, then no, the opaque plastic would not be problematic. I prefer to avoid taking vast arrays of pills, though. I take iron because when I didn't I was so anemic that I ought to have been fainting on a daily basis, and I take vitamin D because my M.D. uncle said I should; that's all. But pills don't take up space that I use for enjoyable food. I love food! I don't want to replace it with displeasing things.