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Re:Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood by Spivak on Thursday October 10, 2019 @03:31PM (#21218332)
Well yeah, but let's compare apples to apples here. A "processed" Salisbury steak you buy in the frozen section likely isn't all that different than what you would end up with if you made it yourself but the homemade one doesn't get labeled as processed like it probably ought to.

You're absolutely right that the actual nutritional content matters and there's a lot of low-nutrition food out there but the term processed just irks me because it doesn't at all capture what's actually wrong with certain types of food.

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Re:Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood by SketchySeaBeast on Thursday October 10, 2019 @04:20PM (#21218761)
I absolutely agree with you - let's quantify why it's bad - "processed" food is a meaningless term. It has a bunch of implications (salt, sugar, scary chemicals), but those are the bad guys, a food can be processed without those, or unprocessed with them.
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Re:Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood by dalore on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:44AM (#21222590)
How is anyway a frozen steak classified as processed?

Processed food, as explained, would be the industrial processing of bleaching the flour etc.

Also the seed oils which are used is highly processed.

Yes you can make a non processed pizza. Use real ingredients.

Yes the term processed is irksome, so use real food. Real food is easy to identify. It's food we good eat and make easily before the industrial age.

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Re:Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood by SketchySeaBeast on Friday October 11, 2019 @09:33AM (#21224160)
You just went around in a circle - my initial question was why pizza wasn't a real food and you turned to processed as "You can define real food as non processed food with minimal (usual one) ingredient".

What makes a real food if it's not defined by processing? Minimal ingredients list? Marshmallow is just sugar, water and gelatin. The only way you could then consider that "not real food" is by appealing to the processing of the sugar again.

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