WaPo article about processed foods

[Anonymous]

I totally agree with the point of the article that processed stuff is bad for you and should be minimized. But they suggest a website that was developed by some northeastern students called truefood.tech -- I looked at it, and the ratings seem utterly off to me. For instance, they rate Fruit Loops as better than Raisin Bran. That's just one example -- I checked a few different categories and decided that using their rankings to actually shop would be utterly foolhardy. I just find it irritating that the WaPo food writing is so simplistic.

[Anonymous]

Simplistic writing in the WaPo has bugged me for years. However, I suppose it's good for a large swathe of the population who don't want to read something more in-depth and complex.

I read the entire article to my husband, and mentioned all the previous articles that have come out recently about this very same subject. Over the past 5 years, and particular since the pandemic, he's been hoarding junk food, snacking on them at all hours, and encouraging the kids to so the same. It's horrible for their health.

[Anonymous]

Raisin Bran has more sugar per serving than Froot Loops with a whopping 17 grams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Raisin Bran has more sugar per serving than Froot Loops with a whopping 17 grams.

The serving size for Raisin Bran is 59 grams, as opposed to the fruit loops 39 grams. Raisin Bran has 7 grams of fiber and 5 grams of protein, as opposed to Fruit Loops 2 and 2, and Fruit Loops has more ADDED sugar (12 g as opposed to 9 g for Raisin Bran) Adjusting per service size and showing per gram of cereal:

Raisin Bran: .28 g sugar, of which .15 is added; .12 g fiber, .08 g protein
Fruit Loops: .31 g sugar, of which all .31 is added; .05 g fiber, .05 g protein

Plus, of course, there is all the dyes in Fruit Loops.

Anyway, looking through a few different pages on that website, I was very unimpressed with the nutritional analysis.

[Anonymous]

I was similarly unimpressed with the website.

But beyond that - I have been wishing years for this study to come out, and it just confirms what I thought. The most interesting piece is that your body needs to big macronutrients to break down. If the energy is too easily available, it messes everything up.

I’m making a wholesale change in my family’s entire diet based on this. More homemade stuff, even if I make cookies every single week, and no more middle of the grocery store stuff.