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This commercial jam[0] is made with exactly the same ingredients as would be used to make home-made jam. It is Nova Group 4. The problem with the group 4 defi
by marcus0x62 3y ago
This commercial jam[0] is made with exactly the same ingredients as would be used to make home-made jam. It is Nova Group 4.
The problem with the group 4 definition is it is a mix of things that are genuinely harmful, things that are completely irrelevant to the health of a given food item, and broad, vague definitions that could be used to describe almost any prepared food item as “ultra-processed” if one were so inclined.
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- abdullahkhalids 3y agoI make jam at home. I usually just heat the fruit (strawberries, raspberries etc) alone, with not even added sugar. That's group 1. If I add sugar, it becomes group 3. If I did add pectin for some reason, it becomes group 4. Yes, I agree that group 4 is very broad, but I think as an initial attempt its good. Breaking things down into further groups is going to confuse people a lot more, especially because there are no distinct categories here. Too much overlap. Just asking people to eat less of group 4 is a much more reasonable public health objective.
- marcus0x62 3y ago> I make jam at home. I usually just heat the fruit (strawberries, raspberries etc) alone, with not even added sugar. You'll never guess what is extracted from the fruit when you do this.