That is the heart of the problem. Every plant species a cow consume contains dozens of chemical compounds, like antioxidants and vitamins. Those compounds find their way into the meat of the cow, and then into us. We, as a culture, have broken this chain. Our cattle, on the whole, eat grain, and as a result all of the positive benefits of those plants are lost to us. As the food system has industrialized, incidence of cancers, heart disease, diabetes, and obesity have risen across the board. Obviously those things are not attributable to only one cause, but the industrial food system is one thing that all Americans interface with, regardless of differences in regional environment, ethnicity, or income levels.

It's not as simple as just chemically isolating these compounds and adding them to food, either. There is little evidence that chemically isolated vitamins can even be absorbed by our bodies, for instance. The interactions between these different compounds are just as, or maybe more, important than the presence of individual vitamins or antioxidants.

To try and reduce all of those incredibly complex interactions as "some other stuff" is absurd. I'm not looking for superfood, I'm asking if it will be possible, in the next five to ten years, for nutritional science to replicate those extremely complex relationships in the artificial meat. It would be wonderful if they could, because people the world over would then have access to more complete nutrition. But it's not going to happen. Nobody is even trying. They're all trying to find the next silver bullet cure-all.