"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 4/3/2013 10:41 AM, Pico Rico wrote:
>> "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.
>>
> I do believe you get it. You're just being contrary. I'm talking abut
> home made vs. storebought. Sure, if you "prepare" mashed potatoes,
> package them and sell them in quantities in plastic tubs it's going to
> require some sort of chemical stabilizer. Read the label on this tub of
> potatoes:
>
> http://www.hormel.com/products/Variety.aspx?ID=28&
>
> Oh yum! A Hormel product! That's processed food. Okay?
>
>> People here talk about dehydrating stuff all the time. If you or I
>> dehydrate something at home it is "processed"?
>>
>>
> You know better than that. The Betty Crocker dehydrated potato slices
> crap has been sitting in a warehouse for who the hell knows how long? If
> you dehydrate it yourself, you prepared it. Fresh. That's the
> difference.

But it's still processed. I looked this up because someone said to me that
it looked like I bought a lot of processed food. So I said to myself...
Just what is processed food! And it's not what I thought it was. I thought
it was stuff like bologna, hot dogs, Velveeta, Spaghettios. And they are
but so are most of the other things we find in a grocery store. And once we
cut into them or cook them, we have processed them too. So that business
about avoiding processed foods is a bunch of hooey.