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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am really frustrated by the advocacy around “highly processed” foods.

This morning I looked in my kitchen and realized I have three forms of shelf stable oats. Steel cut, rolled, and Cheerios.

Are they nutritionally different? I have no idea! I mean the Cheerios are just ground up into dust and mushed into Os, right? Is that really worse than rolling them flat? How do I tell?

I don’t understand at all why yogurt is not “highly processed.” It seems to me like highly processed milk?

If I make a fake Frappuccino with xanthan gum in my kitchen, is it highly processed now?

I want to give my family healthy foods, but this “highly processed” thing is ridiculously opaque and hard to follow. This feels as helpful as in fifth grade when I learned I should eat 11 bowls of cereal a day, lol. [/quote]

Most foods we eat are processed.

Bread, pasta, cheese, hummus, etc. all processed foods. Even milk is processed— it isn’t naturally pasteurized or homogenized, you know. Beer and wine are processed foods etc etc etc[/quote]

All foods are processed unless you go to the field and eat.

This discussion is where is the line between processed, highly processed, and ultra processed. [/quote]

Those adjectives mean zilch.

Do you mean packaged? Preservatives added? Food dyes?

Be more specific.

Because people do rail against “processed foods” all the time and they sound stupid when they do. [/quote]

Agree and agree with OP. And the sensible PP who said just try to eat foods close to what they start like. 
What else can we do at this point. There are entire industries that profit$$ on our confusion, busy lifestyles, ingestion of soundbytes. Let's not give them the satisfaction of fighting amongst ourselves too, hm?[/quote]

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