In article >, says...
>
> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
> ...
> > 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.
>
>
> 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.

If you go to the supermarket and buy a tray of ready made cooked
chicken recipe, or mashed potatoes, or lasagne, you are not just buying
the recipe ingredients you would cook to make the same thing at home.
You've bought a heap of processing chemicals and additives that you
would never add (or need) making it at home.

Those are the added salts, preservatives, thickeners, fats, flavour
enhancers, sugars, artificial flavourings, textures and colouringss etc
that keep that factory-made food safe and presentable for the extended
period it takes from factory prep and assembly to distributor to
supermarket and the customer kitchen.

Childrens brains are not fully developed so far more susceptible to
such additives. Given that those myriad additives to processed foods
(and commercial packaging) are long established as potentially causing
all kinds of reactions in consumers from asthma to obesity and child
behavioural problems, I'm amazed you know so little about processed
foods and feed so much of it to your daughter.

http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/t...n-common-food-
additives

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...he-proof-food-
additives-ARE-bad-feared.html

Janet UK.