“Highly processed” is so unclear

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Eat more of what is on the perimeter of the store rather than the middle.

Like flowers and frozen bread? Or the chips on the end caps? Or maybe you mean the donuts from the bakery section? The prepared foods section?

Any other useless tidbits?

It was only a matter of time when a pedantic fatty showed up with a snarky comment to justify their poor food choices

Wait. Pedantic fatties are the only ones who know the bakery section with the donuts is on the perimeter of the store?

Maybe you’re just an imbecile.

The sad part is you think this daily show level intelligence of yours is clever. You do you boo. The rest of us will eat real food and not feel like dog shit all the time.

Fatso, I almost forgot, when you say the Daily Show, which host? It will depend on whether I feel insulted or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:American breakfast cereals are becoming more unhealthy: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/health/cereal-nutrients-unhealthy.html?searchResultPosition=3

I usually eat oatmeal I get from an independent natural foods store I've gone to for decades, but every so often I have a yen for Cheerios or Grape Nuts or something, and it blows my mind how few cereals there are that resemble the ones from when I was a kid (I'm retired, so. . . ) And the insane flavors. (I also get nostalgic for puffed wheat at times, it doesn't seem to exist anymore)

It's so strange that the more we hear about unhealthy foods the crazier the food processing companies get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:American breakfast cereals are becoming more unhealthy: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/health/cereal-nutrients-unhealthy.html?searchResultPosition=3

I usually eat oatmeal I get from an independent natural foods store I've gone to for decades, but every so often I have a yen for Cheerios or Grape Nuts or something, and it blows my mind how few cereals there are that resemble the ones from when I was a kid (I'm retired, so. . . ) And the insane flavors. (I also get nostalgic for puffed wheat at times, it doesn't seem to exist anymore)

It's so strange that the more we hear about unhealthy foods the crazier the food processing companies get.

I saw crumbl cereal the other day. People are buying this garbage and feeding it to their children.

[Anonymous]

I actually recently caved and let my kid start eating cereal at breakfast because they did cheerio projects at school and she asked for them.

It is really, really convenient. Easier and faster than all our other routine breakfasts.

At least at Whole Foods, there are a ton of cereals to choose from with reasonable sugar contents. On other days, I use honey to get my preschooler to eat Greek yogurt, and I don’t think the sugar load is that different on cereal day.

Anyway I definitely ate worse cereals as a kid, with skim milk. Today I get undyed, reasonably sweetened cereal and serve it with whole milk. Those feel like significant modifications.

[Anonymous]

Enjoy this podcast, which has a pretty good takedown of vagueness of the whole highly processed situation: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ultra-processed-foods/id1535408667?i=1000710989373.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:American breakfast cereals are becoming more unhealthy: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/health/cereal-nutrients-unhealthy.html?searchResultPosition=3

I usually eat oatmeal I get from an independent natural foods store I've gone to for decades, but every so often I have a yen for Cheerios or Grape Nuts or something, and it blows my mind how few cereals there are that resemble the ones from when I was a kid (I'm retired, so. . . ) And the insane flavors. (I also get nostalgic for puffed wheat at times, it doesn't seem to exist anymore)

It's so strange that the more we hear about unhealthy foods the crazier the food processing companies get.

I like shredded wheat with milk but rarely eat it. Wheat tastes slightly sweet to me. Of course, it's highly processed because you can't eat raw wheat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:American breakfast cereals are becoming more unhealthy: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/health/cereal-nutrients-unhealthy.html?searchResultPosition=3

I usually eat oatmeal I get from an independent natural foods store I've gone to for decades, but every so often I have a yen for Cheerios or Grape Nuts or something, and it blows my mind how few cereals there are that resemble the ones from when I was a kid (I'm retired, so. . . ) And the insane flavors. (I also get nostalgic for puffed wheat at times, it doesn't seem to exist anymore)

It's so strange that the more we hear about unhealthy foods the crazier the food processing companies get.

I like shredded wheat with milk but rarely eat it. Wheat tastes slightly sweet to me. Of course, it's highly processed because you can't eat raw wheat.

This is so weird. I’m not sure what your point of trolling and troll creating this whole thread was?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:American breakfast cereals are becoming more unhealthy: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/health/cereal-nutrients-unhealthy.html?searchResultPosition=3

I usually eat oatmeal I get from an independent natural foods store I've gone to for decades, but every so often I have a yen for Cheerios or Grape Nuts or something, and it blows my mind how few cereals there are that resemble the ones from when I was a kid (I'm retired, so. . . ) And the insane flavors. (I also get nostalgic for puffed wheat at times, it doesn't seem to exist anymore)

It's so strange that the more we hear about unhealthy foods the crazier the food processing companies get.

I like shredded wheat with milk but rarely eat it. Wheat tastes slightly sweet to me. Of course, it's highly processed because you can't eat raw wheat.

This is so weird. I’m not sure what your point of trolling and troll creating this whole thread was?

I am not OP. Just another person confused by highly processed and eating "close to nature." They don't even add salt to shredded wheat and I am sure that would improve the flavor for some.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:American breakfast cereals are becoming more unhealthy: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/health/cereal-nutrients-unhealthy.html?searchResultPosition=3

I usually eat oatmeal I get from an independent natural foods store I've gone to for decades, but every so often I have a yen for Cheerios or Grape Nuts or something, and it blows my mind how few cereals there are that resemble the ones from when I was a kid (I'm retired, so. . . ) And the insane flavors. (I also get nostalgic for puffed wheat at times, it doesn't seem to exist anymore)

It's so strange that the more we hear about unhealthy foods the crazier the food processing companies get.

I like shredded wheat with milk but rarely eat it. Wheat tastes slightly sweet to me. Of course, it's highly processed because you can't eat raw wheat.

This is so weird. I’m not sure what your point of trolling and troll creating this whole thread was?

I am not OP. Just another person confused by highly processed and eating "close to nature." They don't even add salt to shredded wheat and I am sure that would improve the flavor for some.

So who is saying it’s highly processed? The NOVA system downer but it’s not good enough because it’s not ‘murican?

You guys are running around amok and arguing here about absolutely nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:American breakfast cereals are becoming more unhealthy: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/health/cereal-nutrients-unhealthy.html?searchResultPosition=3

I usually eat oatmeal I get from an independent natural foods store I've gone to for decades, but every so often I have a yen for Cheerios or Grape Nuts or something, and it blows my mind how few cereals there are that resemble the ones from when I was a kid (I'm retired, so. . . ) And the insane flavors. (I also get nostalgic for puffed wheat at times, it doesn't seem to exist anymore)

It's so strange that the more we hear about unhealthy foods the crazier the food processing companies get.

I like shredded wheat with milk but rarely eat it. Wheat tastes slightly sweet to me. Of course, it's highly processed because you can't eat raw wheat.

This is so weird. I’m not sure what your point of trolling and troll creating this whole thread was?

I am not OP. Just another person confused by highly processed and eating "close to nature." They don't even add salt to shredded wheat and I am sure that would improve the flavor for some.

So who is saying it’s highly processed? The NOVA system downer but it’s not good enough because it’s not ‘murican?

You guys are running around amok and arguing here about absolutely nothing.

It's not from the perimeter of the store. It has been ground, cooked, and extruded. It's not straight from the field.

[Anonymous]

I read recently that the way to go is reading labels—good rule of thumb, no more than 3 ingredients (or any that sound like a chem lab) is a way to avoid highly processed food 🥘 DS. Hence, the diff between rolled oats and Cheerios.

[Anonymous]

Anything that’s one ingredient is unprocessed. Fruit and vegetables are not processed. Meat (that’s not deli meat) is not processed. Eggs are not processed. Nuts and seeds are not processed.
grains and dairy are very highly processed especially grains

[Anonymous]

Best advice about avoiding processed foods, if that is important to you (and please stop showing what an idiot you are by claiming you don't understand what processed food is): shop the perimeter at the grocery store: produce, dairy, meat. For your carbs, avoid most aisles - potato, sweet potato, and the one aisle you'll need: quinoa, bulgur, barley, long grain rice

The rest of the grocery store is *mostly* processed crap

[Anonymous]

Read the ingredients list, if you can’t pronounce any of the words or otherwise identify which of the four groups it belongs to you have your answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anything that’s one ingredient is unprocessed. Fruit and vegetables are not processed. Meat (that’s not deli meat) is not processed. Eggs are not processed. Nuts and seeds are not processed.
grains and dairy are very highly processed especially grains

Whole grains are highly processed. Who knew.