Comments on: Processed Foods Are Bad, Aren’t They?

By: julie

julie — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:54:49 +0000

Some of this, indeed, is just semantics. I eat some processed foods, and use many processed ingredients, assembling it myself. I don’t grow fish sauce, cinnamon, coconut milk, olive oil, butter, but these are one ingredient processed items, not comparable to Lean Cuisine or tofu pups or pop tarts, for examples.

By: Adrián Manuel Dorsey

Adrián Manuel Dorsey — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:42:17 +0000

As usual taking a rather mature and objective stance 🙂

By: evilcyber

evilcyber — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:30:06 +0000

In reply to Steve Craig. Well, if the Internet brought us anything useful, then it's that small voices have more of a chance to be heard. Let's hope it stays that way for a bit longer.

By: evilcyber

evilcyber — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:27:26 +0000

In reply to nino. I will take that as a compliment :)

By: evilcyber

evilcyber — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:27:05 +0000

In reply to dmitry. Well, the organic food movement is ever growing and more and more people also embrace home-growing (who would have thought that would happen in a world that believed in manicured lawns?). The prospects for the future may therefore not be that dim.

By: evilcyber

evilcyber — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:25:44 +0000

In reply to Moon. I'm sorry, it seems I just can't turn off reason. Somewhere in my ancestry a Vulcan must be lurking :)

By: evilcyber

evilcyber — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:20:10 +0000

In reply to Kael. And that is, I think, what it really comes down to: Judging each food by its individual value.

By: Kael

Kael — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:30:34 +0000

Sure, pretty much every food is processed someway, but the difference between the word processed literally and the word processed in everyday language should be noted. When people talk about processed food being bad, it usually means that very processed food is bad, and that is generally true. Sure processing something doesn’t make it bad, but the interests of processing food aren’t usually that noble. Very processed food can be identified by it having less nutrients, because that will increase the foods shelf-life and increase the foods consumption. Just for comparison 12 eggs and one 165g can of Pringles potato chips both have around 900 kcal. What happens if you try to eat a dozen eggs? Well, it’s going to be very difficult and you aren’t probably going to be hungry for half a day after that. What happens if you eat a can of Pringles? You’ll want to eat more. Sure not every processed food is the same and in food it’s quite hard to come up with accurate generalizations that are always true for everyone, But I’d still say that most of the time the more processed the food is, the less nutritious and satiating it is. Less processed isn’t always better but I think most of the time it is.

By: Steve Craig

Steve Craig — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:32:03 +0000

A very enjoyable read and an eye-opener to all! So many health enthusiasts overlook these little things, and we have dogmatic beliefs about food shoved into our brains and down our throats every day! It’s absurd! Thanks for helping to educate the masses!

Always the best, my friend!

-Steve, SteveCraigFitness.com

By: dmitry

dmitry — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:12:53 +0000

what are the choices left in the future if we don’t embrace a process food 🙁