You constantly hear about how processed food is bad for your health and should be avoided. But what is it and why is it so bad?
In: Biology
Normal food spoils, separates, has non-uniform colour and shape, can taste different from batch to batch. By substituting ingredients with unnatural ones or altering the chemical structure of existing ones, longer shelf life and consistency are achieved, but at a cost to our health. Chemically modified sugars and hydrogenated or ultraprocessed oils like cottonseed or corn are things the human digestive system isn’t ready for, and we haven’t evolved to consume these things.
In the cases of white rice and white bleached flour, nutritious parts of the grain are stripped away, and the end product has less nutrients other than starch.
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