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Also a lot of bad stuff can be put in when food is refined. Just take Mashed Potatoes. Should be simple - just potatoes. Ingredients of Betty Crocker Potato

Also a lot of bad stuff can be put in when food is refined. Just take Mashed Potatoes. Should be simple - just potatoes. Ingredients of Betty Crocker Potato Buds "Potatoes, Mono And Diglycerides (To Improve Texture), Freshness Protected By Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bisulfite And Citric Acid. Dried." Another example, Edy's Slow Churned Light French Silk Ice cream has "Non-Fat Milk, Sugar, Cream, Chocolaty Chips (Sugar, Coconut Oil, Cocoa Processed With Alkali [Dutched Cocoa], Fractionated Palm Kernel Oil, Cocoa, Soy Lecithin, Salt, Natural Flavor), Corn Syrup, Cocoa Processed With Alkali (Dutched Cocoa), Whey Protein, Molasses, Buttermilk Powder, Soy Protein, Acacia Gum, Nonfat Dry Milk, Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Carob Bean Gum, Natural Flavor, Salt, Natural Flavors (Including Malt Extract), Xantham Gum, Caramel Color." Who knows what all those are? Where possible I make my own food from scratch. (Within reason - I don't milk my own cows, or spend hours making custom bread or pasta)

sliverstorm 12y ago
"I can't pronounce these ingredients" doesn't mean they are bad for you. "Cocoa Processed With Alkali" is, as the list notes, a technical name for "Dutched Chocolate". Carrageenan is from seaweed. Guar gum is a ground bean. And so forth.
- mathattack 12y ago
  Sure. In any given case, they may or may not be bad for you. But in accepting processed foods over home grown, you are taking on faith that the provider shares your values. (Would they add more sugar and salt than you would to improve taste? Would they put in additives you wouldn't, and hide them under funny names?) I'm not an off-the-reservation eat everything raw person, but I am skeptical that most managers would make food less addictive to make it healthier. There are exceptions, but this is one of the negative aspects of a market economy.

sliverstorm 12y ago

"I can't pronounce these ingredients" doesn't mean they are bad for you. "Cocoa Processed With Alkali" is, as the list notes, a technical name for "Dutched Chocolate". Carrageenan is from seaweed. Guar gum is a ground bean. And so forth.

mathattack 12y ago
Sure. In any given case, they may or may not be bad for you. But in accepting processed foods over home grown, you are taking on faith that the provider shares your values. (Would they add more sugar and salt than you would to improve taste? Would they put in additives you wouldn't, and hide them under funny names?) I'm not an off-the-reservation eat everything raw person, but I am skeptical that most managers would make food less addictive to make it healthier. There are exceptions, but this is one of the negative aspects of a market economy.