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Welcome to the same issue with organic, natural and even junk food that all have loose definitions. What word do you like and your definition of it?
by Joakal 5y ago
Welcome to the same issue with organic, natural and even junk food that all have loose definitions.
What word do you like and your definition of it?
- nine_k 5y agoHighly processed? Ultra-processed? The idea is that the processing can alter the structure of the food lightly (grilling a steak), moderately (frying a burger), or deeply (making a sausage, with all the extractions, admixing, etc). Deep processing is often used to make less edible things more edible, less palatable things more crave-inducing, and less nutritionally good things more palatable.
- colechristensen 5y agoDon’t use vague broad terms. If something has negative health consequences it’ll be one specific thing, not everything done by a machine.
- IX-103 5y agoI also have an issue with organic and natural* as well, but that's not exactly on topic. If prefer people to use words that mean things. The article wasn't even about processed foods so much as how there is a nutritional model that shows high carbohydrate/low glycemic index foods are particularly fattening relative to their calorie content. The article could easily (and more accurately) be titled "New research highlights the damage from high carb/high sugar foods". *I mean seriously, vitamin water is "natural"? That stuff is water and sugar alcohol, with a tiny bit of stevia added so it can appear on the ingredients list for people who look for that particular keyword. Those sugar alcohols do occur naturally, I guess, but not usually in foods, and never in such quantities (and never from high fructose corn syrup).