Re:Nobody knows why ultra-processed foods are bad for you
by johnyzee on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @05:30PM
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You can process wheat into flour at home. You cannot process sugar cane into table sugar without an industrial plant.
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Re:Nobody knows why ultra-processed foods are bad for you
by Suppafly on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @06:17PM
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>You cannot process sugar cane into table sugar without an industrial plant.
That's obviously false.
Re:Nobody knows why ultra-processed foods are bad for you
by johnyzee on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @02:15PM
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The refined sugar you buy in the store ('table sugar') is clarified with phosphoric acid and bleached using a number of other chemicals. In addition to this, it goes though a number of other industrial processing steps that you would not be able to perform at home. Hence, it is 'highly processed'.
Re:Nobody knows why ultra-processed foods are bad for you
by Suppafly on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @10:43PM
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So you can make it at home using scary chemicals that you can easily buy online. You can't just say 'industrial processing' and 'chemicals' and be believed.
Re:Nobody knows why ultra-processed foods are bad for you
by nobody9999 on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @06:02PM
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>You can process wheat into flour at home. You cannot process sugar cane into table sugar without an industrial plant.
That statement seemed off, so I poked around a little and, yes you can make granulated sugar from sugar cane at home[0].
[0] https://shuncy.com/article/how-to-make-sugar-from-sugarcane-...