I am by no means an expert, but I think the idea boils down to, as long as you have them in moderation, you're fine. The issue arises when people can't afford or don't have access to non-processed foods (food deserts for example). It is a deep, complex, and nuanced subject, and I don't think a single article that boils down to "ultra-processed foods bad" is really interested in the nuance.
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I think there is consensus that processed foods are not as good for you as food in their base form. They tend to have more calories from sugar and the like. It is not that they are inherently bad, but that people eat too many of them, thus getting most of their calories from sugar instead of other macros. This study is older, but has better definitions:
I mean, the MSG scare was 100% racism.
https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-rotten-science-behind-the-msg-scare/
This seems like a holdover from that
Yeah, saying the presence of a single ingredient can indicate ultra-processed food then including an ingredient that is in a lot of Asian food seems like the racist MSG scare from the 70s-90s
Ah, exactly what we need. An inaccurate search engine to replace the dominant inaccurate search engine.
And I don't think gun control is even a campaign promise. Just shows either lack of forethought or lack of understanding from their campaign
Plenty of fungis at that party
Ah, ok. Thanks for the explanation
Wow, I am so sorry. What is the name of the fungus? I'd like to look into it a bit more since we have...a lot of plants in my house
That escalated quickly
For a better reference than just single ingredients, the article lists what it considers ultra processed:
Ultra-processed foods include carbonated soft drinks; sweet or savoury packaged snacks; chocolate, candies (confectionery); ice cream; mass-produced packaged breads and buns; margarines and other spreads; cookies (biscuits), pastries, cakes and cake mixes; breakfast ‘cereals’; pre-prepared pies and pasta and pizza dishes; poultry and fish ‘nuggets’ and ‘sticks’, sausages, burgers, hot dogs and other reconstituted meat products; powdered and packaged ‘instant’ soups, noodles and desserts; and many other products see online supplementary material, Supplemental Table 1).
The supplementary material they mention is linked later on, but the link does not work for me
To view supplementary material for this article, please visit https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980018003762
For sure! And this article seems to be hinting at ultra-processed foods being a huge problem, when the actual problem is probably late stage capitalism and the poverty it creates (to be less than nuanced myself, lol).