Re:UK supermarkets report a surge in vegan food sales while ...
by traceroute66 on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:46AM
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What "processed" means ?
It is what it says on the tin. Two examples:
1) The addition of preservatives, additives, emulsifiers and such like (the so-called "E" numbers)
2) Manipulating the product through a highly industrial process in such a way that makes it unrecognisable from its original form, so for example :
- In the meat eating world, reconstituted meat.
- In the fake-meat world. One example is fake chicken, which tends to use pea protein isolate. Pea protein isolate is created using a chemical-based highly-industrial process. Added to which the usual suspects such as MSG are also used in the fake-meat world in order to try to fake the taste.
Could you elaborate on what exactly "processed" means here? It seems like a very loosely defined concept. What specific changes or additions to raw ingredients are happening and how do these make the food less healthy?
Simply saying "processed food is bad" to me seems like a fallacious overgeneralization along the lines of "natural is good" or "chemicals are bad".