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It means making as most distance between the starting product (or products) and end product. Adding the distance by removing parts from the starting product, or
by ssijak 6y ago
It means making as most distance between the starting product (or products) and end product. Adding the distance by removing parts from the starting product, or adding additional things(especially hard to pronounce ones) is particularly bad.
And people pretend like they don't know what we mean by "processed food". You need like one hour of education about food, or really common sense to distinguish which kind of processing is bad in almost all cases.
We eat processed sugar more than ever before. We eat processed fat more than ever before. We eat processed protein more than ever before. Hell, we eat anything more than ever before. And we move less. And then we nitpick on what "processed" actually means?
Is it that hard to figure out that packaged broccoli is better than breakfast cherios?
Or that farmed chicken cooked in your house is better than deep fryed minced with who knows what fast food one?
That raw cacao bean is better than sweets in the store?
That raw nuts are better than hydrogenated palm oil?
That strawbery is better than strawberry icecream?
Most of us know even only by intuition what type of processing is bad, but we overeat almost everything and then blame particular food group or item or macronutrient.
- Chris2048 6y ago> Adding the distance by removing parts from the starting product, or adding additional things(especially hard to pronounce ones) is particularly bad. It sounds like a fairly poor, even progress adverse, distinction. You may as well judge foods by the character count of their ingredients & additives. > people pretend like they don't know what we mean by "processed food" Does it differ from the dictionary definition I just quoted? > We eat processed sugar more ... And then we nitpick on what "processed" actually means? Maybe if we where clearer on terminology, we'd eat less of these things? like distinguish between medium, high and very-high sugar density foods to avoid binary thinking (healthy vs unhealthy). > Is it that hard to figure out that packaged broccoli is better than breakfast cherios? No, but you're cherry picking a low-sugar vegetable and a high sugar cereal. Grey areas still exist; I don't know who this rant is directed at. > Most of us know even only by intuition what type of processing is bad Nonsense, there are lots of unhealthy foods that mislead in packaging.