"Pico Rico" > wrote in message
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> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>> On 4/3/2013 3:54 AM, sf wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 23:58:42 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just looked this up because I realized that I really didn't know for
>>>> sure.
>>>> But it looks to me like if it isn't raw meat, fruit or vegetables, it
>>>> is
>>>> processed.
>>>>
>>>> Nuts out of the shell are processed. Milk is processed. So are cheese
>>>> and
>>>> yogurt. If it's frozen? It's processed. Even if it is simply
>>>> vegetables
>>>> or fruit with nothing added. Flour would be processed. So would rice
>>>> and
>>>> pasta of all kinds. Anything in a can is processed. Dried foods are
>>>> processed. If you cook it? You've processed it.
>>>>
>>>> So I'd be willing to bet that unless you are a raw vegan whole foodist,
>>>> you
>>>> are eating processed foods!
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think most people are thinking of foods with additives/preservatives
>>> when they think "processed".
>>>
>> Yep, she's confusing "preparation" with "processing".
>>
>> Examples: I *prepare* mashed potatoes by boiling them, adding milk and
>> butter and mashing them. Using a box of dried potato flakes or a
>> container of refrigerated heat & eat mashed potatoes is "processed" food.
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> So if I "*prepare* mashed potatoes by boiling them, adding milk and
> butter and mashing them", put it in the fridge, and then give it to you,
> it has become a "refrigerated heat & eat mashed potatoes [that] is
> "processed" food"? I don't get it.

All you have to do is cut into them and then you've processed them.

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>
> People here talk about dehydrating stuff all the time. If you or I
> dehydrate something at home it is "processed"?

That's what it says at the various websites that I read.