Not all plant-based foods are equal. This type can raise the risk of heart attack and early death | CNN
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Eating plant-based ultraprocessed foods raise the risk of heart disease and early death, but there’s an easy fix, a new study found.

plant based alternatives are pretty good for reducing calories or inflammation in my experience.

Ultra processed foods are unsurprisingly (but disappointingly) still bad.

  • @piecatEnglish
    1•6 months ago

    You’re all overthinking it.

    When they say “ultra processed foods” they usually mean that all the healthy (yucky) parts were removed.

    White bread is “unhealthy” compared to whole because they’ve taken out the parts that are nutritional and provide fiber. Corn syrup is less healthy than corn because they’ve taken out the fiber and nutrients and boiled it to make a syrup.

    You could put kale in a food processor and call it processed, but that isn’t what they mean.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•6 months ago

      No I’ve actually read the studies of the scientist that started all this. She groups stuff by the number of processing steps and ingredients, making no effort (due to difficulty, I have no reason to believe she’s a hack) to identify the specific reasons.

      Her research groups foods which are essentially deconstituted, separated, and reconstituted in the same category as sauces made from 5 base veggies and 40 stabilisers, texture modifiers, flavour additives, and preservatives.