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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^but I feel like they never do a good job explaining the limits. I make all our food at home but I use store bought broth. That’s got way more ingredients that my grandma never used when she made broth from scratch. It makes it very confusing as to what to exactly constitutes “super processed.”[/quote]

I agree.  I know fresh whole foods are good, packaged shelf-stable foods bad, but there is so much in between.  Is ground beef considered super processed? Dr. Praeger's black bean burgers? Frozen peas? Canned peas? Pasteurized milk? Etc.[/quote]

The study is pretty clear that it's not talking about any of  those things except maybe the black bean burgers, which I don't have experience with.

This is a study that just looked at the percent of each category of food within the diet.  It didn't measure the relative health of foods within the categories.  For example, my kids will happily eat a bowl of plain cheerios with just milk, or oatmeal made with milk and sugar.  This study makes me think the oatmeal is a better choice because it's less processed even though it has more sugar.  On the other hand, it doesn't make me think that because poptarts and plain cheerios are in the same overarching category they're equivalent.  I'm pretty sure the cheerios are still substantially healthier than the poptarts.

So, the black bean burgers are probably healthier than almost any other prepared ready to heat meal.  If you're in a situation where you're choosing between them and deli meat in a sandwhich it's probably a no brainer.  But if you're comparing them to homemade black bean burgers, the latter is probably even healthier. [/quote]

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