Re:Dietary guidelines may soon warn against ultraprocessed f...
by abdullahkhalids on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @10:08PM
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I make jam at home. I usually just heat the fruit (strawberries, raspberries etc) alone, with not even added sugar. That's group 1. If I add sugar, it becomes group 3. If I did add pectin for some reason, it becomes group 4.
Yes, I agree that group 4 is very broad, but I think as an initial attempt its good. Breaking things down into further groups is going to confuse people a lot more, especially because there are no distinct categories here. Too much overlap. Just asking people to eat less of group 4 is a much more reasonable public health objective.
Re:Dietary guidelines may soon warn against ultraprocessed f...
by marcus0x62 on Thursday November 09, 2023 @09:06PM
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> I make jam at home. I usually just heat the fruit (strawberries, raspberries etc) alone, with not even added sugar.
You'll never guess what is extracted from the fruit when you do this.
The problem with the group 4 definition is it is a mix of things that are genuinely harmful, things that are completely irrelevant to the health of a given food item, and broad, vague definitions that could be used to describe almost any prepared food item as “ultra-processed” if one were so inclined.
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