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lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’d go with the amount of additives compared to the “real” thing.

Like basic bread is water, yeast, flour and salt.

If your bread has 20 ingredients - it’s ultra processed.

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porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That probably captures many such things but it’s not fool proof. I like to make bread with 2-4 different kinds of flour, 4-8 different kinds of seeds, a teaspoon or two of sugar to get the yeast going, sometimes milk or olive oil or another fat source. At it’s most complex it could get pretty close to 20 ingredients but I don’t feel that should be classified as ultra-processed. The kinds of ingredients used and the actual process also matters.

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- Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, bread can get complicated depending on what you want to make. Excluding flour, I have in my pantry to make bread these:
  
  espresso powder
  
  cocoa powder (multiple varieties)
  
  barley malt syrup
  
  oats
  
  variety of seeds (shitload of carroway mainly)
  
  variety of spices
  
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Zexks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Salt is flavoring. Ultraprocessed.

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- SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Me putting ingredients into my food processor called Ultra. ULTRA PROCESSED!!
  
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