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Re:The New Science on What Ultra-Processed Food Does to Your... by stakhanov on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @02:01AM (#39676612)
The reason it doesn't fall into this category is not because it's not ultra-processed, but because it's not food, and no one is claiming that it's food either. Presumably the idea here is more about how many calories you ingest, and what proportion of those calories comes from what level of processing. AG1 is not going to be a significant proportion of anyone's caloric intake.
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Re:The New Science on What Ultra-Processed Food Does to Your... by Kirby64 on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @03:08PM (#39683542)
Yet adding xanthum gum or any sort of thickening agents to a food would make it ultra processed. Both of those have no nutritional value. Why does nutritional value have any relation to if something is ultra processed? It certainly doesn’t matter from a classification standpoint.
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Re:The New Science on What Ultra-Processed Food Does to Your... by stakhanov on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @01:52AM (#39688458)
Medicine is "ultra-processed" as well, and goes in your mouth, but the study is certainly not implying that medicine, on the balance of probabilies, is unhealthy for you. That's where it makes a difference. It's not "don't put anything in your mouth that's ultra-processed", it's "don't rely exclusively/mostly on ultra-processed stuff to replace healthy food intake".
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