Which ultra-processed foods are good for you?
Heavily processed convenience foods are things we love to hate and hate to love. But are some ultra-processed foods actually good for us?
More than 50 percent of our energy intake in the UK comes from ultra-processed foods, according to a study reported in the British Medical Journal. These foods include industrially produced cereals, sauces, baked goods and ready-meals.
Maybe we should go back to butter instead of that other stuff sold in plastic tubs. Mrs H and I went back to it years ago. Of course industrially produced drinking water is heavily processed too. Everything which can be removed is removed.
As an aside, the term industrially produced is entertaining. We could easily say the BBC output is industrially produced. Information is so heavily processed that almost all brain food is lost in the processing and replaced by potentially harmful additives. It certainly isn't good for you.
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We never gave up butter on the impeccable argument that the government health propaganda was manifestly bollocks. Ditto full milk.
Anyway I'm a rural Scot and it is my inalienable birthright - nay, my duty - to smear butter thickly over food. Except soup, obvs. Or trifle. Or ...
Should I assume that the new dietary dogmas are based on a little evidence as the old ones? Perhaps.
A diet high in ultra-processed foods is not recommended”, she continues. “Research has demonstrated a direct association between intake of ultra-processed foods and...voting for Brexit, getting a bit lairy and loud when drunk, driving a white van, owning a staffie, and generally being the sort of people I don't feel comfortable being around..."
dearieme - I smear butter more and more thickly as I become older. It feels more healthy than a thin scraping. As for dietary dogmas, I tend to disbelieve all of it as my starting point. Often my ending point too.
Sam - and tattoos, don't forget the direct association with tattoos.
We gave up that awful margarine stuff several years ago, when the excessive marketing made it so obviously a big con!
Never looked back, and while we've tried unsalted butter recently, it really doesn't cope for taste...
Scrobs - we use unsalted butter for making bread, but not for spreading on toast and crumpets.
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