
It’s because the US has laws stating that every single ingredient and every ingredient within those ingredients has to be listed. Look at the chicken right at the top. It’s not enough to just say Ponzu Chicken. They also have to write out boneless skinless chicken breast fillet, rib meat, solution of water, sea salt, and sodium phosphates. The Ponzu Chicken was enough. We know what part of the chicken it comes from and what cut it is. And we know there’s salt and water in the chicken.
Btw with baked goods most of those extra mystery ingredients after flour and water are vitamins and minerals that the government requires added so poor people surviving off bread and ramen don’t get vitamin deficiency and croak. This was a huge issue in the past and many developing countries and i think is objectively good for American society because most people would have to get those in like unnecessarily expensive multivitamins instead