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>>atestu+(OP)
I've seen ultra-processed food mentioned in other countries as well. It's a buzzword with no meaning.

Pasteurization saves lives. Flash-frozen foods retain more nutrition in transit, while freezing seafood kills parasites. And even the best bread and butter are as processed as food can get.

I'm reading the "chemical additives" list and it's a mix of obviously harmful things with known safe things added in trace concentrations - there's no intellectual rigor and a lot of fearmomgering.

>>gradie+gE3
When I hear "ultra-processed," here's what comes to mind:

- little Debbie snack cakes

- cereals

- white breads

- hot dogs

- chips

- pizza rolls

- Velveeta

- pop tarts

So I guess you're right, it has no meaning. But you're way off, I don't think anyone is talking about frozen raw fish as "ultra processed", or pasteurized milk.

>>sejje+dG3
How can be something simple as bread be ultra processed? We can prepare it at home.

>>bromur+6P3
Looking at the ingredients list on Wonderbread white bread, could you make that at home?

You can make bread with salt, flour, yeast, and water. Most breads in the grocery store, however, have considerably more ingredients, which are more in the purpose of treating the foodstuff as an industrial product rather than for nutritional purposes.

(That's not automatically bad btw. The amount of ultraprocessed food you can eat is actually probably quite a lot in relative terms before it starts causing health problems --- the problem is when it becomes 70-80% of your diet.)