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While processed foods consumption correlates with diseases, it's likely because food that's processed outside of your house typically includes ingredients (or p
by hbrn 4y ago
While processed foods consumption correlates with diseases, it's likely because food that's processed outside of your house typically includes ingredients (or preparation method) that either make it last longer or taste better at the expense of your health.
But that doesn't mean that processing is always harmful. Frozen fish is considered "processed", but freezing also kills parasites.
- DennisP 4y agoI'm guessing the study authors would include frozen fish in their "minimally processed" category.
- hbrn 4y agoThere's no reason why a certain preservative can't have positive health effects. Pretty sure a lot of them do, we just don't talk about it. Essentially this leads to a useless circular definition: "processed" food is bad for your health because we define "processed" as being bad for your health. A statement "unprocessed food is good for your health" contains zero information.
- DennisP 4y ago"Food that is bad for your health" is not the definition used in the studies I linked. They provide their actual definitions, and measure health outcomes from varying levels of reported consumption. So if you want to access a non-zero amount of information, the bottom of that article has links to the full-text studies.
- zug_zug 4y agoPretty sure freezing in general is a form of processing that destroys some protein and nutrients. Hence why fresh vegetables taste better than frozen vegetables. There are lots of reasons different types of processing could reduce healthiness of food.
- voldacar 4y agoPlant cells have rigid cell walls and are damaged more by freezing than animal cells