Which processed foods are better than natural?
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Sure it is "processed" in a sense, but most of these things hardly fit the modern definition of what most people picture "processed foods". I mean at that point, if I cut my apples with a knife, they are in a way "processed" and better than the natural apple since I can avoid eating the bad parts without biting into them.
I think there's a lot of unknown about what our foods even are, what 'natural' means and so on.
(it's going to be hard in the context of a blog post or article title, because you need to pick a single word or two there; but I think that for individual food products, there could be methods to illustrate fairly clearly what types of processing were involved for people who would like to inspect the details)
Slicing bread is "processing" in the strawman sense, and so is putting it into a plastic bag.
The issue is that if humans are exerting effort and money to process food, it’s almost always to make it more hyperpalatable, calorically denser and faster to digest. All of those features are strongly associated with low satiety and overconsumption.
That's the problem - it raises the insulin levels quickly. Unused energy gets stored in the fat cells
Some sun-dried foods, likewise.
That sort of thing.
Though I'd still count that as "natural".
Those are obviously better after that processing since okay is better than sick/dead.
:)