Just seeing a lot of articles about ultra processed foods lately and wondering.
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Basically, everything you every do from a food, from picking it, washing it, cooking it, etc.. is processing that food.
So think of processing as a scale like:
Washing and eating raw
Cooking single ingredient food
Cooking and combining food
Cooking, combining and seasoning
Cooking, combining, seasoning and adding artificial ingredients.
Ultra processed is basically the higher end of processing, which includes mixing ingredients that aren’t found in nature, which some of them are just toxic to the body, and the most important is creating “ultra palatable” food combinations. Basically scientists work endlessly to find exactly what combination makes people want to eat as much of that food as possible. The problem is that the mix together is incredibly toxic to the body in large quantities, including being carcinogenic (inducing cancer), destroying your arteries, etc..
In addition, they are usually highly calorie dense.
It isn’t so much as a single oreo will be harmful to you, but constantly and daily eating ultra-processed foods is linked to the vast majority of health problems facing the modern world.
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