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How did you come to the idea that processed foods are part of a healthy diet

• bobthepanda 3y ago
  not all processed foods are healthy, but also not all raw foods are healthy either. most of the issues with processed foods are with the ultra-processed foods, those foods that are manufactured into a food product with minimal or no cooking required. and there's the stuff like iodine or niacin fortification and pasteurization, which we know has had systemic positive effects on nutrition. there's also where exactly you draw the line for processing. fermentation is like the oldest food preservation method we have (kimchi, cheese): is that processing? the raw diet people even believe cooking of any time is processing.
  • avery17 3y ago
    Nothing is healthy, everything is just varying levels of bad for you. Its all about minimizing.
• adrian_b 3y ago
  Any kind of food must be processed by removing the parts that are not edible or are contaminated or contain various harmful substances. This kind of processing is always good. The kind of processing that is bad either adds to food substances that are not food, e.g. conservants or colorants, or it destroys useful components of the food, like vitamins or unsaturated fatty acids, by heating or other harsh treatments. The useful part of the grains, which cannot be obtained from other sources at a similar price, are the proteins and the starch, which are needed by a human in large quantities daily. Everything else that is contained in the whole grains can be found in countless other vegetables that are better sources than the whole grains.