"Janet" > wrote in message
T...
> 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.

Sometimes but not always. Central Market makes their food fresh. No
additves like that. PCC and Whole Foods are the same.
>
> 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.

I don't feed so much of it to my daughter. I do read the labels. I do know
what is in there. Feeding her cooked chicken now and then isn't so bad.