New research highlights the damage caused by processed food

Re:New research highlights the damage caused by processed food by kazinator on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @07:17PM (#29088839)

If you cook, fry, bake, brine or ferment it, it's "processed".

Think of the damage doable by unprocessed food: all the pathogens and parasites that can enter your body.

The fact you can eat something that is six months old is possible thanks to processing, such as leaving it in the same air-tight container in which it was cooked, a.k.a canning.

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Re:New research highlights the damage caused by processed food by JoeNr76 on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @07:46PM (#29089126)

That's why the scientific literature uses the better term "ultra-processed" to mark the difference between, say a loaf of bread and a chicken nugget.

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Re:New research highlights the damage caused by processed food by refurb on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:09PM (#29089368)

That’s a subjective distinction.

I would say a chicken nugget is just finely ground chicken meat with some binder like egg or flour covered in breading.

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Re:New research highlights the damage caused by processed food by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:01PM (#29090263)

Clearly you've never heard of meat glue.

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

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Re:New research highlights the damage caused by processed food by refurb on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:15PM (#29090347)

How is that different than making things like head cheese? You boil bones and connective tissue and make a loaf out of the congealed proteins. It's been done for centuries. Or were our ancestors eating "ultra highly process foods" too?

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Re:New research highlights the damage caused by processed food by kazinator on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:13PM (#29090335)

True Scotsman Processed is still relatively wholesome.

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