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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't overthink it. A good rule of thumb for when people are talking about, or rather complaining about, highly processed is the more ingredients it has that sound like science lab chemical compounds instead of food, the more processed it is. A good example would be reading the ingredient labels on ice creams. The more premium the ice cream, the fewer ingredients it has and few of those, if any, will sound like a science lab chemical. Even Haagen Dazs vanilla ice cream only has five ingredients, all easily recognizable: cream, skim milk, cane sugar, egg yolks, and vanilla extract. The cheaper ice creams will have more ingredients with weird names that are used as stabilizers and fillers and flavor substitutes. That's highly processed.

I also wouldn't call cheerios highly processed in this vein of thinking either. Fruit Loops, on the other hand... and you can probably understand why. [/quote]

This. Honestly I’ve just gotten to the point where I look for fewer ingredients and ones I know. So the potato chips that are potato, oil, salt or the pistachios that are pistachio and salt win out as snacks over Oreos, cheaper ice creams, or Doritos all of which have ingredients that appear to have science lab names.[/quote]

No.  Those potato chips aren’t healthier.  They’re empty calories with no nutritional value loaded up with oil and salt that is easily absorbed screwing with your body chemistry and not satiating your hunger, leading to you eat more calories sooner.[/quote]

Actually, most potato chips have a good amount of vitamin C. There are sources of vitamin C that don’t have added oil and salt, but it’s not correct to say that they have “no nutritional value”. [/quote]

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