Here's how useless the term "processed food" is when it come to health: Canned and frozen vegetables are considered a processed food. Milk, cheese, and bread are also processed foods.
There is a distinct difference in food science between processed food (anything that has been cut, or undergone any kind of process) and ultra-processed food (made of many different ingredients, many of which cannot be found in an ordinary kitchen, and undergone multiple processes). While the term is not perfect, it is still useful when talking in general terms.
That's a really extreme take of that term. Normally, processed food means like, sugar cereal and biscuits; not frozen spinach pucks and tofu. Just because it's a loose fuzzy term instead of a formal scientific definition doesn't make it useless
I was on a train crossing the border and border patrol came on and asked everyone if they had fruits or veg.
This group ahead of me said "we don't eat that stuff" and then all four laughed. The sad punchline is that he thought he was so clever, but alli saw was 4 obese people not realizing how much they just said about themselves.
32 Comments
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 30d
Ketchup is a vegetable
stopforgettingit@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 30d
Potatoes are also vegetables.
bryophile@lemmy.zip · 28 pts · 30d
Tobacco is also plant-based and I'm sure chickens are made of the vegetables they eat as well.
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 30d
Sure would be cool to go back to a time where words had meaning
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 30d
Hwæt seist þou, we habbeþ aye y-had follish ymages?
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 5 pts · 30d
The breadcrumb is also a vegetable
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 30d
Some meats are also vegetables.
I am banned from the coma ward. The morgue staff has yet to locate me yet.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 30d
So is pizza
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 12 pts · 30d
So is my uncle.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 30d
So his nurses are essentially gardeners.
DownByLaw@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 30d
*fruit
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 30d
Good health is a process.Good health is processed.
Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 30d
"Processed food" is something designed to be eaten, "organic food" is just some shit someone found in the dirt
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 7 pts · 30d
Here's how useless the term "processed food" is when it come to health: Canned and frozen vegetables are considered a processed food. Milk, cheese, and bread are also processed foods.
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 30d
There is a distinct difference in food science between processed food (anything that has been cut, or undergone any kind of process) and ultra-processed food (made of many different ingredients, many of which cannot be found in an ordinary kitchen, and undergone multiple processes). While the term is not perfect, it is still useful when talking in general terms.
SuiXi3D@fedia.io · 3 pts · 30d
The second you take a cut of meat and grind it into, well, ground meat, it is ‘processed’.
Zarobi@aussie.zone · -2 pts · 30d
That's a really extreme take of that term. Normally, processed food means like, sugar cereal and biscuits; not frozen spinach pucks and tofu. Just because it's a loose fuzzy term instead of a formal scientific definition doesn't make it useless
brownsugga@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 30d
Lol
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 30d
Most plants we eat today were cultivated for centuries to be more nutrient and calorie-dense than the original plant.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 30d
That is a good thing.
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 30d
I agree. They are not just things we found in the dirt anymore.
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 30d
I prefer sugar free artificial sweeteners, MADE BY MAN!
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 3 pts · 30d
I was on a train crossing the border and border patrol came on and asked everyone if they had fruits or veg.
This group ahead of me said "we don't eat that stuff" and then all four laughed. The sad punchline is that he thought he was so clever, but alli saw was 4 obese people not realizing how much they just said about themselves.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 17 pts · 30d
That is the saddest fried chicken I've ever seen.
Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 30d
I believe they prefer to be referred to as tendies.
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 30d
This man has never been to a Sickie's bar and grill.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 30d
Looks more like Shake'n'Bake chicken, not actually fried chicken.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 30d
Standard American Diet (SAD).
Kintarian@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 30d
Breakfast of champions
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 30d
That's not health, it's healf. Init.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 30d
Holy crap, how many chickens is that?
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 30d
Too few.