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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the desire to avoid processed foods. Do you avoid medicine, too? What other scientific advances do you shun?[/quote]

Oh come on. You know darn well many 'food' items are not food at all and contribute significantly to disease which makes you need medicine.[/quote]

NP. I am also a bit confused by what people are hoping to achieve by avoiding processed foods. Processed foods span a huge range of food types. I completely understand ruling out fast food and Doritos, but the posts on this thread seem to be going in a more extreme direction. 
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People are talking about "ultra processed foods," which have generally been defined as foods with ingredients that would not be used in a home kitchen (such as foods loaded up with additives, preservatives, fake sweeteners, other chemical names rather than food descriptors). Typically if you can recognize the names of ingredients, the item is not considered UPF. That said, I think a more tenable goal is to reduce, rather than entirely eliminate, UPFs. [/quote]

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