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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So bacon, turkey, bread are the main UP foods. I was hoping the turkey breast sliced at home and the sourdough multi-grain from the bakery were not ultra processed. [/quote]

Correct.  The bread if iffy depending on source.  Any baked goods bought in a grocery store bakery or Costco are likely ultra processed.  Whole Foods, maybe not, depending on the item.  I don’t know how much actual baking and leavening is happening inside of Whole Foods. Bread should be made of flour, water, salt, yeast- that’s it. [/quote]

Does enriched flour count as highly processed?  I vote no.  I just looked up the ingredient list for costco bread and it is:
Enriched flour, water, sour culture, durum flour, contains 2% of less of -- wheat starch, salt, semolina, sugar, extra virgin olive oil, yeast, yeast extract, barley flour, enzymes, ascorbic acid.  
I think I would count this as processed, not highly processed, but I guess the question is whether small amounts of "wheat starch", "enzymes" and "ascorbic acid" kick it over the line.  I think enzymes are in cheese, right?  So doesn't seem like that's necessarily highly processed.  Ascorbic acid is just vitamin C.  Again, that doesn't seem so bad.  
But when you compare to Pirate's Booty (which does seem ultra processed to me) -- the ingredients aren't that different.  This seems like p#rn -- there's some things that are clearly yes, some things clearly no, and then a big grey area where we all feel like we know it when we see it, but we all have different viewpoints. [/quote]

The ascorbic acid is likely a preservative, i.e., just to get the acidity to level up to kill most things.

However, if the flour can in a fancy bag, it would be utra-processed. If you need flour you should buy it from the local miller in a _plain_, not fancy, bucket. [/quote]

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