Why does food lose nutritional value after being processed?
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You got two very different answers, because “processing” can mean many things. When speaking about the nutritional deficiencies of “highly processed food”, the processing in question is not merely cooking, but refining; removing most of the plant and sometimes even chemically altering the extracted substances.
It is possible to do some of this in a nutritionally sound manner, but it is often overshadowed by other priorities like shelf life, consistency, and ease of processing.
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