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These vegan meat brands taste almost as good as the real thing. Taste tests prove it. (www.nationalobserver.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If I added some olive oil to a recipe, I wouldn’t consider it processed. Here are the ingredients of Impossible burger meat:

Ingredients: Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Sunflower Oil, Coconut Oil, 2% Or Less Of: Natural Flavors, Methylcellulose, Cultured Dextrose, Food Starch Modified, Yeast Extract, Dextrose, Soy Leghemoglobin, Salt, Vitamin E (Tocopherols), L-Tryptophan, Soy Protein Isolate,

Vitamins and Minerals: Zinc, Vitamins (B3, B1, B6, B2, and B12)

Contains: Soy

- https://faq.impossiblefoods.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018937494-What-are-the-ingredients-in-Impossible-Beef-Meat-From-Plants

The only preservatives in there are cultured dextrose and vitamin E. Vitamin E occurs naturally in meat anyway, and cultured dextrose is just dextrose that’s been fermented. It’s used as a natural preservative in tons of foods, including deli meats.

Nothing in there is something I would consider “processed”, but I guess that depends on your definition of processed. If fermentation is “processed”, then tons of healthy natural foods are processed, including yogurt, cheese, kombucha, and sauerkraut.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oil is itself processed food.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not necessarily. Extracting oil, you can say, is a form of processing, just like juicing an orange. I think it makes the label somewhat useless to say that, but sure. When you eat a raw soybean, though, you’re consuming soybean oil. That’s not processed in any way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's an amusing semantic ploy. Let us say I am using "oil" in the culinary sense, which would not include fats still trapped in cells and fibers of the plant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The term “processed food” is entirely semantic. What is considered “processing”?

[–] madame_gaymes 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a spectrum, not black and white. Ranges from minimal- to ultra-processed. I'm referencing anything more than minimal (which is as simple as slicing an apple). I have less GSI issues when my intake is raw and whole.

https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/processed-foods/

So yes, I would consider all those things you listed as processed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Processed water is an interesting concept.

Or do you just mean cheese and yogurt etc?

I feel like the label just becomes useless if something like a bowl of oats is “processed”.