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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is wrong with you people?  Avoiding giving her child processed foods like puffs doesn't mean she's obsessed or that her eating is disordered.  There is so much misinformation out there about diet and nutrition.  OP admitted that had bought into some of that misinformation like believing that fruits that are higher in sugar aren't healthy.  She has now changed her thinking after following the advice of her doctor.  Jeez, give her a break.  Good job OP.  It's not easy to change habits and beliefs around diet and it sounds like you've made a lot of progress with your daughter.[/quote]

Most foods are processed.

Yogurt is processed. Bread is processed. Cheese is processed. Granola is processed. Pasta is processed. Nearly everything we eat is produced using a process.[/quote]

There is processed and then there is ultra-processed: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/05/16/723693839/its-not-just-salt-sugar-fat-study-finds-ultra-processed-foods-drive-weight-gain

NOVA classification system: https://archive.wphna.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/WN-2016-7-1-3-28-38-Monteiro-Cannon-Levy-et-al-NOVA.pdf

Verdict: puffs are ultra-processed[/quote]

I saw an article awhile back about unprocessed vs processed vs ultraprocessed. Which brought to mind the question: how much cooking/baking of unprocessed or minimally processed food before the product from your kitchen counts as ultraprocessed?  Granted, heavily processed foods contain a variety of stabilizers, emulsifiers, anti-clumping agents, leaveners (like baking powder??), anti-oxidants. Those are derived from various animal, plant, and mineral sources. Flour itself, simply because it is so finely ground, is a far, far cry from the grain on the stalk.

I think there has been some criticism of the study about ultra-processed foods driving weight gain, read about the study and criticisms of it in, maybe, Scientific American. But with the ultra-processed foods in the study, wouldn't it just be the salt-fat-sugar, along with (maybe) the other things to control texture and such, that drive the weight gain?

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In general, if you cook it at home from "scratch" then it's hard to get to ultra processed territory.

There have been a few studies about ultra processed food and some have methodological issues, but the one discussed in the npr article was a controlled experiment, not an observational diary study, so it's better than most. [/quote]

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