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Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  most food you cook at home is gonna be processed through heat, chopping, washing and rinsing anyways. you can’t retain a healthy diet if you eliminate processed foods, mostly because a lot of unprocessed ingredients are unsafe to consumea

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  • YesIAmHoomanNoCat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you purposefully misunderstanding that comment?

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    • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      no, I’m just trying to demonstrate how the popsci view of processed foods as bad is unscientific. we’re not cows, we need processed foods to survive and we evolved as a species to live as such

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      • YesIAmHoomanNoCat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        ‘Processed food’ usually refers to industrial processes often requiring different ingredients or production stepa compared to homecooked

        Eg. Homecooked soup Vs. Instant package soup.

        Both are soup, but homecook has usually less salt, less sugar, less preservatives, kcal and shorter cooking times for the ingredients.

        That’s why ‘avoid processes food’ is such common advice.

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  • Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The idea is you process the food yourself via cooking it at home versus the food being processed at a factory and subjected to the engineering described in the original post: addition of preservatives, excess salt and sugar, etc.

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    • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      what peer reviewed source can you provide that says preservatives are harmful?

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      • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “preservatives” are not inherently unhealthy. But some specific ones are, depending on dose, quite bad for you.

        Salt is a pretty preservative, as is sugar, citric acid, vinegar, etc. You can eat those in pretty huge (for additives) quantities before you notice anything.

        Other stuff, like BHA/E-320 is banned from EU babyfood becuase it’s very low dayly limit (.5mg/kg) is a risk for babies. If you’re the kind of person who snacks on cereal all day, you’re absolutely in the risk group for it. Sodium Nitrate/Nitrite is not dangerous most of the time, but if you’re eating lots of beef jerky, that can absolutely form a cancer risk increase (It’s in IARC group 2A)

        Of course, you can construct argument like this for pretty much every substance in food. The main difference is that some are entirely avoidable.

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