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"Basically, a diet entirely devoid of processed foods?" Processing isn't all bad. In fact, the most basic processing brought great gains to humanity: Cooking.
by Broken_Hippo 9y ago
"Basically, a diet entirely devoid of processed foods?"
Processing isn't all bad. In fact, the most basic processing brought great gains to humanity: Cooking. It made meat less dangerous to eat and frees up nutrients in some vegetables. Sometimes, processing is what allows us to eat a food (acorns, for example) or lets us get through the winter (drying, fermenting, and whatnot).
Similarly, freezing foods isn't such a bad thing. Be it freezing fruits and vegetables or freezing leftover home made soup. You don't need lots of preservatives nor special ingredients to do this either at home nor with commercially prepared foods.
Milk products are keen to be processed as well. Cheeses, yogurts, and so on aren't bad things to eat. Pasteurization keeps milk available longer.
Processed doesn't mean bad, its just a few of the things we've come up with aren't so wonderful.
- corpMaverick 9y agoIt begs the question. What do people mean what they say processed foods ? Other than what you have already mentioned. (cooking, freezing and pasteurization .
- Broken_Hippo 9y agoI'm pretty sure folks generally mean highly processed foods - high fructose corn syrup, for example, and some modern vegetable fats. This is pretty vague, of course. And sometimes folks include older methods such as making sausages and bacon to it. They could mean something like mycoprotein (quorn branded meat replacements) or pea protein based meat replacements (Beyond meat, for example), though those hardly seem to be in the same sort of category even though they seem pretty processed. The question is why I bring up the processing that we make good use of, actually. :)