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While the guidelines don’t provide a clear definition of what constitutes highly processed foods or how consumers can identify them, they do offer some broad ex
by techblueberry 10mo ago
While the guidelines don’t provide a clear definition of what constitutes highly processed foods or how consumers can identify them, they do offer some broad examples at various points, including store-bought “chips, cookies, and candy,” and “white bread, ready-to-eat or packaged breakfast options, flour tortillas, and crackers.”
Trying to write a ten page comprehensive document on “how you should eat” would be a fools errand.
But are chips highly processed? It’s just cut, fried and salted potato right? My morning omelette is more highly processed.
I feel like highly processed has been such a scare term and now the more I think about it, the less it means to me.
- mytailorisrich 10mo agoList of ingredients and processing is more complicated than that, so in general they are indeed considered UPF.
- techblueberry 10mo agoEh even if it were homemade potato chips, you probably shouldn’t be eating that many carbs at least as a habit. The point is, UPF seems to be a scare word for “bad” and not like a solid unique definition of bad things. Does RFK Jrz take a protein shake and / or supplements? I’m sure those qualify as more ultra processed than the chips.
- DetectDefect 10mo ago> It’s just cut, fried and salted potato right? My morning omelette is more highly processed. Both the omelette and chips are highly processed foods - not the real food you should be eating for optimal health.
- techblueberry 10mo agoEggs olive oil and vegetables aren’t real food I should be eating for optimal hwaltg? What is then?
- DetectDefect 10mo agoWhole fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds: the type of stuff our evolutionary biology is actually adapted to thrive on. If you cannot access the human food niche as a result of where you live, then grains, starches, rice and beans are all an adequate addition or even substitute.
- ajam1507 10mo agoThis is proof that even people with the wrong information can end up eating the right foods.