Over 80% of foods marketed to toddlers in the United States are ultraprocessed, while nearly half also fail to meet global nutritional guidelines, a new study found.
“Ultra processed” is frankly a meaningless label in health discussions.
Raw milk is not healthier than “ultra processed” (i.e. pasteurised) milk for example. Ultra processed baby food is and should be the norm over raw, untreated baby food.
That’s the problem though, there is no fixed definition for “Ultra processed foods” that doesn’t include healthy foods. Its a label people slap onto unhealthy foods and then retroactively attempt to categorise.
Yeah, if you pick an orange off the tree in your front yard, rinse it, and then peel it, it’s been processed. If you mash it up and bake it into bread with cranberries that’s ultra processed. We need better labels for food thats been handled vs food that’s barely food.
Maybe it depends on what processes call under “processed”? Like I could see a world where the way cows are treated counts as being processed (being pumped full of drugs and such)
since when is raw meat considered ultra processed?
“Ultra processed” is frankly a meaningless label in health discussions.
Raw milk is not healthier than “ultra processed” (i.e. pasteurised) milk for example. Ultra processed baby food is and should be the norm over raw, untreated baby food.
That is processing, not ultra processing.
Pasteurisation is not ultra processed in anything I have seen before.
That’s the problem though, there is no fixed definition for “Ultra processed foods” that doesn’t include healthy foods. Its a label people slap onto unhealthy foods and then retroactively attempt to categorise.
Yeah, if you pick an orange off the tree in your front yard, rinse it, and then peel it, it’s been processed. If you mash it up and bake it into bread with cranberries that’s ultra processed. We need better labels for food thats been handled vs food that’s barely food.
https://youtu.be/PJt64x3aEv8
Maybe it depends on what processes call under “processed”? Like I could see a world where the way cows are treated counts as being processed (being pumped full of drugs and such)
I can’t seem to get a straight answer but it seems most raw meats are in category 4. Salami is category 4.
Salami is not raw meat.
I think they were saying it’s dumb for raw meat to be in the same category as salami.
No I was using it as an example. It was just a bad choice. Sausage is cat 4. I can’t get a direct answer on something like raw Chicken.
also you wouldnt feed a baby raw meat anyways.
Forever I think. What category is it in?