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•4w ago
List of ingredients and processing is more complicated than that, so in general they are indeed considered UPF.
techblueberry•4w ago
Eh 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•4w 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•4w ago
Eggs olive oil and vegetables aren’t real food I should be eating for optimal hwaltg? What is then?
DetectDefect•4w ago
Whole 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•4w ago
This is proof that even people with the wrong information can end up eating the right foods.
techblueberry•4w ago
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•4w ago
techblueberry•4w ago
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•4w ago
Both the omelette and chips are highly processed foods - not the real food you should be eating for optimal health.
techblueberry•4w ago
DetectDefect•4w ago
ajam1507•4w ago