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What's a toddler food.
"Ultraprocessed" includes raw meat
since when is raw meat considered ultra processed?
Maybe it depends on what processes call under "processed"? Like I could see a world where the way cows are treated counts as being processed (being pumped full of drugs and such)
I can't seem to get a straight answer but it seems most raw meats are in category 4. Salami is category 4.
Forever I think. What category is it in?
In the only country that exists inter world, US&A. Caus clearly no other counties exist.
Why he eating the pizza backwards
Crust-first pizza eaters are sociopaths
What about a calzone?
Not a pizza. It's the inverse, if you eat only the contents of the calzone and not the crust, you're a sociopath
I prefer my calzone without the shell.
If it's inverse they must eat it like reverse bread bowl. Eat only the crust then lick the contents off the plate. Or a spoon... If one were so civilized
And then they'll tell you breastfeeding is bad.
I've never heard anyone say that.
Nestle
Is typically appeals to vanity. You'll get saggy breasts. No teething issues. Etc.
... in the United States
This is the internet. Please consider the audience to be worldwide.
Unless your country has specific laws to the contrary or is too poor/civilized to have this sort of "lazy parent" food, presume that any of the factory-made shelf-stable food in your grocery aisle is as bad as the equivalent sold in the USA.
(And find out of your country's food laws are actually better than the USA, or just "feel" better because the same exact product can just list fewer ingredients )
It isn't.
That is not to say that the shelf stable food here in Europe is as good for you as a home cooked meal, but America allows ingredients which are literally illegal over here because they're known to cause cancer or other health related issues.
It took the US until two years ago to finally ban titanium oxide as a food additive. You still use horrible foaming agents in your bread, and ingredients derived from processed petroleum byproducts are allowed in your food.
Same here in New Zealand. We have very tight restrictions on food additives, particularly with baby food.
Your junk and nutritionally empty food is not a better option to feed to children just because it doesn't have a certain yellow die.
way to miss the point
It objectively is, as the former has no nutritional value, and the latter is actively trying to kill you.
Again, I am glad I never procreated.
Aren't we all?
Let me see if I can translate this article to a less trendy version:
.About 80% of the packaged foods marketed for children between 6 and 30 months include ingredients only used when creating packaged food at scale. Half of these either contained more fat, sugar, and salt than the WHO recommends or did not abide by the WHO's advice to eliminate food coloring.
Those packaged toddler foods are expensive as well. I’d wager most parents are simply giving their toddlers portions of foods they eat themselves over buying this crap.
That's how we fed kids before corporations convinced us that kids need packets of pureed veggies in a single use plastics
Baby food jars are typically glass
Most of the baby food in my area is plastic pouches
They certainly used to be. And probably fancier brands may still use glass.
Ideally yes. However some meals aren't suitable for toddlers, others that simply don't like. Particularly for exhausted parents, having a healthy, tasty fallback can be a sanity saver. Doubly so when on trips.
Treat them like the toddler equivalent of a McDonald's. OK for 1 off meals, a problem when they become the default diet.
When they're that age, you don't have time to make good financial decisions unless you're killing it or one of you gets to be stay at home. Even then it's rough.
I understand, my kid isn't that many years from when he was a toddler. These particular processed meals aren't any easier to prep than some cheese and crackers or portioning some from the parent's plate of food.
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I probably wouldn't mind the ubiquitous use of the "new system" from the University of São Paulo if I didn't keep seeing it used incorrectly, with its added category treated as causal of poor health instead of correlated with poor health.
Americans aren't overweight because of the "ultra-processed" portion of our high-calorie high-salt diet. Americans are overweight because our diet is high-calorie and high-salt!
It's entirely possible to have a healthy diet that consists only of "Nova" category 4 foods. And entirely possible to have an unhealthy diet that consists only of "unprocessed" category 1 and "ingredient" category 2 foods.
(And unless it's a damn acronym, "nova" should not be capitalized!)
Americans aren’t overweight because of the “ultra-processed” portion of our high-calorie high-salt diet. Americans are overweight because our diet is high-calorie and high-salt!
Oh, I'd argue strongly that the former is also a factor. For one thing, the whole idea of calories in-calories out is a highly flawed concept that whiffs a lot on how the body actually processes foods. Things like resistant starches and slow-digesting grains are key in absorbing food in a consistent manner that avoids glycogen spikes and delivers a smoother energy experience that helps cut down cravings and vicious junk-food circles, so to speak.
Also, the more processed a food is, typically the less vitamins, minerals, fibre, phytochemicals and so forth it contains, all things the body needs and even craves. And there's a natural tendency to eat when one feels a lack of something, which can be some or all of those things above.
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Oh man, my brain left out “foods” in the title. Read it as “4 out of 5 toddlers are ultra processed”. This thread turned out WAY different than I was expecting.
YSK: ultra-processed is not inherently bad. Bad food, though, is always bad.
In some ways it kinda is, though. The point of ultra-processing is either (a) to make the food easier to eat, which can be bad because the hard-to-digest parts like fiber are important for health too or (b) make it taste better, which can be bad because it encourages overeating.
This is why I think all babies should have dentures. That way I can throw them a chicken straight out of the yard and tell him to eat it as it, bones and all. The healthiest way. If you aren't eating feathers you aren't going to be healthy.
Four out of five foods sold for toddlers in the United States
MATKETED to toddlers. Nobody is advertising apples and whole wheat.
What about the Big Apple?
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It's so hard to find foods that are convenient and not ultra processed. I don't mean you can't find them in the grocery store. They're there, but just the actual integration of prepping and cooking those foods day to day is problematic. We do our best though.
Gotta get em young so they can later keep em dependant on the "health system".
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