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I like to go with, if it's something that no longer resembles food that's possible to make with unprocessed ingredients or if more than half the ingredients in
by grawprog 5y ago
I like to go with, if it's something that no longer resembles food that's possible to make with unprocessed ingredients or if more than half the ingredients in a product are chemicals. It's probably ultra processed.
Say burgers. A home made Burger made of freshly ground meat is a 'processed food.'
A Patty created in a factory out of a slurry of smooshed up animal, parts, binders and preservatives then flash frozen and shipped to various places where it's then thawed and cooked using an industrial grill and assembled by a teenager for minimum wage...that's ultra processed.
- chrisseaton 5y agoYou're defining 'processed' as 'not unprocessed', there. Obviously a cyclic definition. And how are you defining 'chemical'?
- TchoBeer 5y ago> chemicals Do you have some special definition of that which wouldn't include "everything".
- rainbowzootsuit 5y agoCome now: there is energy, and probably dark matter too. And space-time. And black holes. And neutron stars.
- TchoBeer 5y agoGenerally don't eat of that though
- tomjakubowski 5y agoIn case anyone is wondering how McDonalds beef patties are made, they're minced from large whole cuts of meat and fat. At industrial scale for sure, though not quite so harrowing as parent's description. https://www.businessinsider.com/i-went-to-a-mcdonalds-factory-and-saw-how-the-burgers-are-really-made-2018-10 https://www.businessinsider.com/i-went-to-a-mcdonalds-factor...