• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    There is more difference between those ingredients than commonalities.

    Color, sugar and whey are being treated the same?

    The entire definition of “processed food” is stupid and useless. Which ingredients are the ones causing problems? Because I guarantee you that a little bit of lemon or vinegar used as a “preservative” isn’t going to impact one’s diet as badly as 1/2lb of sugar in soda.

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      11 months ago

      If you think the list above equates a little bit of vinegar to half a pound of sugar, you definitely didn’t read the article I linked about the NOVA classification system

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        11 months ago

        Oh, I did. It was as empty as the calories in junk food.

        They basically created arbitrary rules that put foods in whatever categories they wanted them to be in.

        The ingredients for those groups are way too diverse to be helpful. And it’s not really about the ingredients since “natural” foods don’t get dinged for having ingredients which others do

        It’s useless.