Are there any nutritionists on here? Or experts? I have questions...

[Anonymous]

Looking up things online you get many different answers. Are there are real nutritionists on this board or food/diet experts? I'm sick of getting different answers looking stuff up online for these questions:

Is all canned food bad for you? Canned fruit without BPA lining. Canned chicken? I know FRESH is always better if you can swing it but is canned too processed and toxic to your health to eat?

Is all processed foods bad? How bad is boxed mac and cheese on an occasions? Should make your own with elbow pasta and cheese? Not eat that at all? Should only eat fresh dairy, meat, cheese, yogurt and fruits and vegetables. Eating only all non processed foods is nearly impossible.

[Anonymous]

Not sure you need a nutritionist or expert for this. There are no bad foods, only bad diets. If you are living on processed food like boxed mac & cheese, you are most likely in for serious health problems at some point. If you eat a balanced diet made up of mostly whole foods with fresh vegetables, fruits and lean mean/fish at the center of it, then a weekly indulgence of boxed mac & cheese is fine (assuming you don't have an issue with carbs due to diabetes or something).

I know nothing about the can issue. I've never paid any real attention to it and regularly buy canned goods and eat them without thinking much about it. Happy to read what others say about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looking up things online you get many different answers. Are there are real nutritionists on this board or food/diet experts? I'm sick of getting different answers looking stuff up online for these questions:

Is all canned food bad for you? Canned fruit without BPA lining. Canned chicken? I know FRESH is always better if you can swing it but is canned too processed and toxic to your health to eat?

Is all processed foods bad? How bad is boxed mac and cheese on an occasions? Should make your own with elbow pasta and cheese? Not eat that at all? Should only eat fresh dairy, meat, cheese, yogurt and fruits and vegetables. Eating only all non processed foods is nearly impossible.

Actually fresh is not always best. Some research shows that frozen produce is often more nutritious than fresh because it is flash frozen sooner after picking vs being picked, shipped and sitting around longer.

But overall I don't think anyone would argue that eating mostly highly processed foods is best. I also don't consider canned veggies or fruit to be highly processed as the are canned but don't contain a lot of other stuff. Canned chicken is just chicken that was cooked in a can. It is always best to eat food as close to it's original state at possible. But that doesn't mean doing so is always practical. All food can be part of a balanced diet.

[Anonymous]

You certainly won’t get any conflicting answers on this board.

[Anonymous]

Canned foods are fine, but the plastic lining does have chemicals. Even if they say BPA free, the lining still contains other chemicals, some very similar to BPA. I wouldn’t eat canned foods daily, and generally will get an alternative if available. Pretty much the only thing I buy in cans are beans and coconut milk. The tomatoes I buy are in glass jars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Canned foods are fine, but the plastic lining does have chemicals. Even if they say BPA free, the lining still contains other chemicals, some very similar to BPA. I wouldn’t eat canned foods daily, and generally will get an alternative if available. Pretty much the only thing I buy in cans are beans and coconut milk. The tomatoes I buy are in glass jars.

Those glass jars have chemicals too.

And the tomatoes have chemicals. And the beans have chemicals. And the water has chemicals. Now that you mention it, every single item of food you have ever eaten has chemicals in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looking up things online you get many different answers. Are there are real nutritionists on this board or food/diet experts? I'm sick of getting different answers looking stuff up online for these questions:

Is all canned food bad for you? Canned fruit without BPA lining. Canned chicken? I know FRESH is always better if you can swing it but is canned too processed and toxic to your health to eat?

Is all processed foods bad? How bad is boxed mac and cheese on an occasions? Should make your own with elbow pasta and cheese? Not eat that at all? Should only eat fresh dairy, meat, cheese, yogurt and fruits and vegetables. Eating only all non processed foods is nearly impossible.

A nutritionist can't give you any more of a reliable answer to this than Google. They're not chemists or food scientists, they just took courses on what foods to eat to reverse deficiencies, or how to lose weight for example. I think you're getting in the weeds with this honestly. Sure boxed Mac N Cheese is awful but is it going to kill you? Absolutely not. Eating and nutrition is cumulative. It's all about your overall nutrition and if you're eating a balanced diet on a consistent long term basis. Do your best to eat fresh nutritious food when you can, and forget about the rest! It is what it is, that's life in the US and frankly in all developed countries. We all want convenience.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looking up things online you get many different answers. Are there are real nutritionists on this board or food/diet experts? I'm sick of getting different answers looking stuff up online for these questions:

Is all canned food bad for you? Canned fruit without BPA lining. Canned chicken? I know FRESH is always better if you can swing it but is canned too processed and toxic to your health to eat?

Is all processed foods bad? How bad is boxed mac and cheese on an occasions? Should make your own with elbow pasta and cheese? Not eat that at all? Should only eat fresh dairy, meat, cheese, yogurt and fruits and vegetables. Eating only all non processed foods is nearly impossible.

Actually fresh is not always best. Some research shows that frozen produce is often more nutritious than fresh because it is flash frozen sooner after picking vs being picked, shipped and sitting around longer.

But overall I don't think anyone would argue that eating mostly highly processed foods is best. I also don't consider canned veggies or fruit to be highly processed as the are canned but don't contain a lot of other stuff. Canned chicken is just chicken that was cooked in a can. It is always best to eat food as close to it's original state at possible. But that doesn't mean doing so is always practical. All food can be part of a balanced diet.

Isn't all canned food highly processed though?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looking up things online you get many different answers. Are there are real nutritionists on this board or food/diet experts? I'm sick of getting different answers looking stuff up online for these questions:

Is all canned food bad for you? Canned fruit without BPA lining. Canned chicken? I know FRESH is always better if you can swing it but is canned too processed and toxic to your health to eat?

Is all processed foods bad? How bad is boxed mac and cheese on an occasions? Should make your own with elbow pasta and cheese? Not eat that at all? Should only eat fresh dairy, meat, cheese, yogurt and fruits and vegetables. Eating only all non processed foods is nearly impossible.

Actually fresh is not always best. Some research shows that frozen produce is often more nutritious than fresh because it is flash frozen sooner after picking vs being picked, shipped and sitting around longer.

But overall I don't think anyone would argue that eating mostly highly processed foods is best. I also don't consider canned veggies or fruit to be highly processed as the are canned but don't contain a lot of other stuff. Canned chicken is just chicken that was cooked in a can. It is always best to eat food as close to it's original state at possible. But that doesn't mean doing so is always practical. All food can be part of a balanced diet.

Isn't all canned food highly processed though?

What does "highly processed" mean to you? The answer depends on what you mean by asking.

E.g., do you consider home-canned food to be "highly processed?" Why or why not? Then we can compare it to comercially canned.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looking up things online you get many different answers. Are there are real nutritionists on this board or food/diet experts? I'm sick of getting different answers looking stuff up online for these questions:

Is all canned food bad for you? Canned fruit without BPA lining. Canned chicken? I know FRESH is always better if you can swing it but is canned too processed and toxic to your health to eat?

Is all processed foods bad? How bad is boxed mac and cheese on an occasions? Should make your own with elbow pasta and cheese? Not eat that at all? Should only eat fresh dairy, meat, cheese, yogurt and fruits and vegetables. Eating only all non processed foods is nearly impossible.

Actually fresh is not always best. Some research shows that frozen produce is often more nutritious than fresh because it is flash frozen sooner after picking vs being picked, shipped and sitting around longer.

But overall I don't think anyone would argue that eating mostly highly processed foods is best. I also don't consider canned veggies or fruit to be highly processed as the are canned but don't contain a lot of other stuff. Canned chicken is just chicken that was cooked in a can. It is always best to eat food as close to it's original state at possible. But that doesn't mean doing so is always practical. All food can be part of a balanced diet.

Isn't all canned food highly processed though?

Like pears have lots of vitamin c yet when you read the lable on canned pears it shows the RDA of zero percent for vitamin c. So what happened to it? Just disappeared from the canning process?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looking up things online you get many different answers. Are there are real nutritionists on this board or food/diet experts? I'm sick of getting different answers looking stuff up online for these questions:

Is all canned food bad for you? Canned fruit without BPA lining. Canned chicken? I know FRESH is always better if you can swing it but is canned too processed and toxic to your health to eat?

Is all processed foods bad? How bad is boxed mac and cheese on an occasions? Should make your own with elbow pasta and cheese? Not eat that at all? Should only eat fresh dairy, meat, cheese, yogurt and fruits and vegetables. Eating only all non processed foods is nearly impossible.

Actually fresh is not always best. Some research shows that frozen produce is often more nutritious than fresh because it is flash frozen sooner after picking vs being picked, shipped and sitting around longer.

But overall I don't think anyone would argue that eating mostly highly processed foods is best. I also don't consider canned veggies or fruit to be highly processed as the are canned but don't contain a lot of other stuff. Canned chicken is just chicken that was cooked in a can. It is always best to eat food as close to it's original state at possible. But that doesn't mean doing so is always practical. All food can be part of a balanced diet.

Isn't all canned food highly processed though?

Like pears have lots of vitamin c yet when you read the lable on canned pears it shows the RDA of zero percent for vitamin c. So what happened to it? Just disappeared from the canning process?

I’m not an expert, but I’m pretty sure the peel is the most nutritious part of the pear. If you remove the peel (whether or not you can the pear before eating), I think you’ve not only lost most of the vitamin C, but probably most of the other nutrients as well.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/peeling-fruits-veggies

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Anonymous wrote:Looking up things online you get many different answers. Are there are real nutritionists on this board or food/diet experts? I'm sick of getting different answers looking stuff up online for these questions:

Is all canned food bad for you? Canned fruit without BPA lining. Canned chicken? I know FRESH is always better if you can swing it but is canned too processed and toxic to your health to eat?

Is all processed foods bad? How bad is boxed mac and cheese on an occasions? Should make your own with elbow pasta and cheese? Not eat that at all? Should only eat fresh dairy, meat, cheese, yogurt and fruits and vegetables. Eating only all non processed foods is nearly impossible.

Actually fresh is not always best. Some research shows that frozen produce is often more nutritious than fresh because it is flash frozen sooner after picking vs being picked, shipped and sitting around longer.

But overall I don't think anyone would argue that eating mostly highly processed foods is best. I also don't consider canned veggies or fruit to be highly processed as the are canned but don't contain a lot of other stuff. Canned chicken is just chicken that was cooked in a can. It is always best to eat food as close to it's original state at possible. But that doesn't mean doing so is always practical. All food can be part of a balanced diet.

Isn't all canned food highly processed though?

Like pears have lots of vitamin c yet when you read the lable on canned pears it shows the RDA of zero percent for vitamin c. So what happened to it? Just disappeared from the canning process?

I’m not an expert, but I’m pretty sure the peel is the most nutritious part of the pear. If you remove the peel (whether or not you can the pear before eating), I think you’ve not only lost most of the vitamin C, but probably most of the other nutrients as well.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/peeling-fruits-veggies

Good point and interesting link PP.

[Anonymous]

Frozen is preferable to canned. Canned is ok if it isn’t in heavy syrup. Cans do contain chemicals in the lining, even BPA. Glass doesn’t.