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Re:Ultra-processed food targets bone quality via endochondra... by dragontamer on Friday June 04, 2021 @04:08PM (#27398528)
> I know many humans who have diets not far off from that.

The minute you add Tomatoes + Cheese (found in pizza), you're suddenly fixing a major vitamin A deficiency (that Hamburgers / Potatoes lack).

Like, at least round out the meal with other ultraprocessed foods if you want to prove something.

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What causes bone deficiency? Well, a lack of calcium (also found in cheese) and Vitamin D (needed to process calcium more efficiently), which potatoes also lack.

Pizza, Tacos, and Ice Cream would fix that, no joke, if I'm thinking about the "worst foods" that still hit those vitamins.

Re:Ultra-processed food targets bone quality via endochondra... by cheese_goddess on Saturday June 05, 2021 @04:46AM (#27403357)
Remember that pizza cheese is often not cheese, but a substitute called Analogue Pizza Cheese, made of casein (the protein in milk), starch, vegetable fats, emulsifiers, stabilisers, preservatives, colourings and flavourings. Burger cheese is either the same stuff or "processed cheese" which means scraps of cheese with the same additives. There's very little in the way of nutrition in any of this.

I'm not sure about the tomato paste either, but if the majority of the paste is the additives and the tomatoes have been heat treated and salted and sugar'd to an inch of their lives, you're not getting anything but calories, like mywittiname's comment suggests.

That's something to keep in mind with any processed foods: many of the materials in them are not there to provide nutrition, and don't.

Re:Ultra-processed food targets bone quality via endochondra... by dragontamer on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:45PM (#27427475)
The majority of Pizzas in the USA use mozzarella from Leprino Foods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprino_Foods

> Leprino supplies cheese to 85% of the pizza market, including Pizza Hut, Domino's, Little Caesars, Papa John's, Hungry Howie's, Tombstone, Tony's, Jack's, and Digiorno.

Re:Ultra-processed food targets bone quality via endochondra... by mywittyname on Friday June 04, 2021 @05:00PM (#27399030)
So I looked up the Vitamin A contents of Heinz ketchup and Kraft Singles (the highly processed "cheese" used in fast food cheeseburgers). Each say 2% RDV per serving, that's roughly 20mcg per serving.

I'm not sure below what level constitutes deficiency. Perhaps that small amount is enough.

Re:Ultra-processed food targets bone quality via endochondra... by mlyle on Friday June 04, 2021 @05:20PM (#27399213)
Hitting 4-6% of the recommended daily value over a sustained time is likely severe deficiency.
Re:Ultra-processed food targets bone quality via endochondra... by lazyasciiart on Friday June 04, 2021 @06:37PM (#27399861)
Hitting 50% over time is noticeably inadequate at a population level. https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/132/9/2920S/4687708