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Not too great, coming from the NYT. The angle is "Ultraprocessed Foods" are bad but skirts around the issue that some are not bad, such as multigrain bread and
by ilamont 2y ago
Not too great, coming from the NYT.
The angle is "Ultraprocessed Foods" are bad but skirts around the issue that some are not bad, such as multigrain bread and plant milks. Further, Ultraprocessed Foods tend to be very inexpensive from a cost and time perspective.
The proposed solutions - cooking everything from scratch, cutting out processed pasta, going down to buy fresh bread from a bakery "if you can afford it" - are unworkable for millions of people living paycheck to paycheck.
Maybe it would have been better to frame this as junk food/high calorie/high sugar/high sodium/high carb/high saturated fats are the main problem from a public health perspective. And that's already widely known.
- ufo 2y agoUltraprocessed bread has more fat & sugar than regular bread, for improved shelf life.