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Re:U.S. Kids Are Getting Nearly 70% of Their Calories from '... by Ajedi32 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:23PM (#28133900)
That's pretty broad. Some of those things might be harmful, some might not be. I doubt extruding dough, cooking ("chemically modifying") it and wrapping it in plastic makes it any worse for you, for example. Whereas on the other side of the spectrum, there may indeed be food additives or chemical treatment process that _do_ make things worse.

Maybe it's not helpful to paint things with such a broad brush, and we should instead focus on specific substances or practices which might be causing problems?

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Re:U.S. Kids Are Getting Nearly 70% of Their Calories from '... by eurasiantiger on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @07:35PM (#28136152)
Cooking can form many very bad things, e.g. neurotoxic heterocyclic amines.

Plastics commonly leach hormone disruptors to food.

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