What are processed foods and why are they bad?
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Typically they puff up some cheap ingredients to seem to be better.
There has to be some reason processed box of ‘dinner’ costs less than the ingredients to make that meal yourself.
The least amount of processing is injecting sodium, sugar and sometimes fat into something. Lunchmeats for example. Processed cheese food product is when they take some cheese and blend fat into it (milk fat solids, they took the fat from the skim milk, dried it, mixed it with real cheese) Lots of products have seaweed mixed in, starches.
THen you have complete deconstruction of the ‘food’ down to the near molecular level and reconstructing a product…IE: the pink slime method of making chicken ‘nuggets’ and now hamburgers and other mystery meat products. You can tear apart a chicken nugget and it looks like actual chicken, the meat splits like chicken with strings etc…but it was extruded in layers with some artificial meat glue (literally) the ‘meat’ is all the odds n ends of the carcass, not sure if that includes the entrails but do know they have to bleach it to kill the pathogens from fecal matter mixed in…so…yeah…. so all this stuff from tons of chickens are ground and blended to a vat of goo and this flavorless mush is ‘chicken’ only so much as it is made from chicken genetic material and has to have chicken flavor added back. So ultimately people, kids in particular, enjoy it for the same reasons we like ramen, salt fat sugar and chicken flavoring.
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