dinosaur-
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/06/ultra-processed-food-healthy-diets-pr
this is the one I remember the most because of this:
But ultimately, bread is made from flour, salt, water and yeast. Taste aside, supermarket bread is no worse for you than fancy bread.
where he completely ignores the fact that those are not the only ingredients in supermarket bread.
And then he goes on:
To do so, we need to, first and foremost, focus on the nutritional content of our food; we should be looking to consume enough protein and fibre, and a little less sugar, salt and saturated fats.
which is the classic food industry approach, just massage the recipe by focusing only
on the macro level of the main components and not where they actually come from
and how they are manufactured vs. just grown foods ingredients.The main point of the article seems to be a strawman argument about how "healthy" UPF is somehow less scrutinized but as far as I have understood it that's not the case since
the UPF definition covers them very well because pretty much anything that has health benefit claims is included.
He himself whinges on about how the definition is to broad.
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sohi
Interesting to see these kind of things getting a hammering in the Guardian recently, they also had some subtle and not so subtle articles in defence of ultra processed food. I wonder what their reasoning is.