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Your Larabar example is way off base: 1. The number of ingredients in something does not directly indicate how (un)healthy it is. The fact that Larabar contain
by Xenograph 6y ago
Your Larabar example is way off base:
1. The number of ingredients in something does not directly indicate how (un)healthy it is. The fact that Larabar contains 2-3 ingredients says nothing about its nutritional value.
2. In fact, many people would not consider Larabar to be a "processed" food to begin with because it literally is just 2-3 fruits and nuts mashed together. You could make something very similar in your own kitchen. The way you're speaking makes it sound like "processed" food is anything that is cooked or combined in some way. That is not how people use the word IME.
3. Have you looked at the sugar content of Larabar? It's not low, nor would I consider it healthy or wholesome. They likely chose dates specifically because of their extremely high sugar content so that they could pretend they are healthy while actually including unhealthy amounts of sugar in their product under the guise of dates.
- m0zg 6y agoLikewise, HFCS has about the same blend of sugars as honey, yet it is considered unhealthy and honey is considered healthy somehow. I'd like someone to explain how that works.
- rsanek 6y agoFWIW, I don't think honey is considered healthy. In any nutrition recommendation I'm familiar with, it is considered a part of added/free sugars, aka something to limit.
- manmal 6y agoMaybe, if HFCS were consumed in equal amounts as honey, it would also be considered healthy. Hormesis is a strange thing - too much of a good thing will turn it into a bad thing.
- dreamcompiler 6y agoHoney is only considered "healthy" by people who know nothing about nutrition but who think "natural" is automatically good [0]. Honey is no better for you than HFCS, but no worse either (except in infants because honey often contains botulism spores that infants cannot fight [1].) [0] https://www.glycemic-index.org/high-fructose-corn-syrup-vs-sugar.html https://www.glycemic-index.org/high-fructose-corn-syrup-vs-s... [1] https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-information/honey-pacifiers-suspected-texas-infant-botulism-cases https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-informatio...
- RealityVoid 6y agoThe observation is, I think, based on the top level post mentioning: > ban all added sugar, except (real) honey in reasonable proportions. As if there is something "magic" about honey that makes it OK as opposed to all other sugars. There is not.