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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with OP.

We eat white rice and tortillas. I get that they're highly processed but I'm not willing to give them up. We also eat black beans. I guess not highly processed.

Butter? Cheese? Flour? Steel cut oatmeal? Heavy cream?[/quote]

How do you all get by left with level of antagonistic pedantism?

DP - but you can have tortillas which are processed - ground nixtamal, salt, and water that you mix up, press, and make at home.  Or you can have shelf stable manufactured ones that possibly contain those ingredients but probably just use regular ground corn plus sugar, oil, preservatives, and maybe other ingredients like emulsifiers to make them taste better and retain texture. People prefer them because they’re squishy and sweet.

So yes, the original tamale is “processed” (it’s not straight corn after all), but the second tamale bears little resemblance to it nutritionally with all the added ingredients.

Corn -  corn flour - nixtamal tortilla - store bought tortillas

Black beans - canned black beans - canned “refried” black beans - black bean flavoured Doritos

I’m really not catching what is so hard here. Imagine how something comes out of the ground. The closer you eat it to that state, the better. Mashing black beans up at home in a recipe is not the same as them being in a can with extra things. It doesn’t mean you can’t eat that can of things, but that when you can, choosing the plain beans is better.

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