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What is the difference between processed carbs and not processed carbs?

• ricardobeat 3y ago
  Refined carbs have had most of the other nutritional content stripped away, especially fibers which slow down digestion and glucose absorption. (not a nutritionist)
• spirit557 3y ago
  One example would be any flour, when they pulverize grains into a fine powder it completely changes the glycemic index/load. Another example could be a whole apple vs apple juice, where they remove the matrix of fiber or flesh of the apple into a liquid that is almost purely sugar and water.
• chaxor 3y ago
  Good question. I don't think there's any real answer to this at all. https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/10/for-then-against-high-saturated-fat-diets/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/10/for-then-against-high-...
  • snapcaster 3y ago
    This is a really bad takeaway from this article. Differentiation between processed and unprocessed is actually really easy if you haven't had your brain melted by rationalists. Even from the article you linked we get: "I think the most likely dietary change I make is to try to avoid foods with soybean, corn, or safflower oil, since this is probably a good stand-in for “foods processed enough that they count as processed foods and you should avoid them”