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Buttered, salted popcorn is "unprocessed" by the standards here. It's a whole grain, mechanically churned cow's milk, and a mineral you can scrape off the grou
by dkarl 7y ago
Buttered, salted popcorn is "unprocessed" by the standards here. It's a whole grain, mechanically churned cow's milk, and a mineral you can scrape off the ground in many places. All three ingredients have been consumed for thousands of years and over that time have only been altered by selective breeding (assuming you buy the non-GMO stuff.)
Despite being "unprocessed," it provides poor nutrition and hits the right buttons for compulsive overconsumption.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoYou're right, but in their raw, raw format it wouldn't work. The only piece of that that's an issue is the butter. I doubt you could eat enough salt or popcorn to get fat off either. It's the processed animal milk that's the real winner. Now this doesn't meet the "ultraprocessed" spec at all, but the processed bit is the one that's the actually an issue, especially when combined with the salt. I doubt cow's milk and popcorn would have that effect.
- pas 7y agoPopcorn is full of grains, which are rather energy dense, even if after popping they gain volume. Just as eating whole cobs of corn will make you full fast (partly due to the water content). Salt makes things tastier (works for the traditional corn too), which leads to eating more.
- balfirevic 7y ago> I doubt cow's milk and popcorn would have that effect. Butter is just churned milk. If that is "processed" then everything is processed. Sea salt is processed too by that standard.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoLike, I said, it's not terribly processed, but it's churned milk whose fat has been pulled out - it's not just churned milk - it's not the raw food stuff, it's a mildly processed deriviative.