Ultra-processed foods are broken inside
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- Опубліковано 29 лют 2024
- Would you eat food that’s been predigested?
Experts say that’s what we’re doing when we consume many popular packaged foods - those breads, cereals, snack chips and frozen meals that have been refined, pounded, heated, melted, shaped, extruded and packed with additives.
A growing body of research suggests that the extent of industrial processing that your food undergoes can alter its effects on your body, determining its impact on your appetite, hormones, weight gain, and likelihood of developing obesity and chronic diseases.
This extreme processing creates foods that are so easily absorbed by the body that they’re essentially predigested. Many foods also are engineered to overcome our satiety mechanisms, which drives us to overeat and gain weight, experts say.
In recent years, scientists have adopted a new name for foods that are intensely manipulated by food manufacturers: ultra-processed. - Комедії
It's really confusing why something that had work put into it is cheaper than something that is just itself.
like it or not, that is a direct result of modern capitalism
my guess would be preservation. the corn would spoil much quicker, I imagine.
We're picky eaters. If you've ever grown tomatoes you'll know how much of your yield is "store pretty" and how much would have to be processed to be sold. Processed isn't cheap, unprocessed is expensive because it is the top cut of a limited yield of aesthetically edible food. All because we can't handle buying a misshapen tomato.
Shelf stability
Key word is "shelf life." The work is an investment that allows you to ship and store your product for a much longer time than other comparable products.
Also @haagenslash5963 knows their stuff.
It's not an accident. They also tweak the flavors to make them tasty but not satisfying, so that you never feel done. Millions of dollars of research done in the 70s.
Hyper palatable
Yeah it's almost like companies want to be profitable or something
Oh look, it's the 70s again. The serial killers did not die out, they just took a different form.
I’m not sure how you can distinguish “tasty” from “satisfying” in food honestly
@@randomjunkohyeah1its a really good point, what is the difference between taste and satisfaction. To answer it as best I can, taste is not just designed for our pleasure, it’s an incredible mechanism that’s evolved over millions of years as an early warning system to our gut. For example, If we taste sweetness, this signals to the gut that it’s about to receive sugar, and insulin will be released. If that sugar, or other thing our body was expecting doesn’t arrive, the gut doesn’t think its received any food, and we don’t release the “full” hormone that signals to our brain we have eaten. So that’s why we can easily demolish ultra-processed food without even realising we have, or feel satisfied.
Can of corn: ~$0.65
Bag of chips: ~$3.00
Exactly. One of the first few comment is some person being amazed at how much more expensive corn is than a bag of chips and I’m here all… what ?!
You know these people have never bought corn. 😅
Also it makes you fuller so you have to eat less hence also buying less
For real. You can get 0.75 lb of frozen brocolli at walmart for a little over a dollar
And canned corn is already like 10x more expensive than even-less-processed one.
There was a short showing how much corn you can buy for $1 and it wasn't just 2 cans worth of corn haha.
Sure, but that's only one example. I can buy a carton if eggs and a box of cereal for similar prices, but the cereal often last me twice as long.
It is interesting how food that needs to go through 50 different machines before being shipped ends up being cheaper than the food that is just packaged and shipped
You're mostly buying air
Its not cheaper
A big bag of Doritos costs nearly $5 where I'm at. You could get a lot of corn for $5.
@@divinecomedian2yep 100% they’re $6 here whereas a can of corn is maybe .75 cents? But that can of corn is “processed” to. Like what are we even talking about at this point
@@divinecomedian2😅😅😅 You stole my comment. I saw a bag of doritos was $5!! 😮 I was shocked.
Its also more readily available. When you go into a gas station in America usually the fresher food costs way more than the single sad salad they have or the fried food kiosk but they have rows of chips and other ultra processed snacks. Or McDonalds charging $9 for a sad salad. We need to make less of them so people arent suffering from lack of accessible wholesome food on the go.
Crisps are popular worldwide, not just with Americans
Being fair would you buy an apple at a gas station?
The real trouble is people buying food in convenience stores. It's our everything all the time culture. That salad costs more because it has a 10 day shelf life. Those chips can last half a year. And that's not from shelf to sale, that's from manufacture to consumption. That salad has to be made, packaged, shipped, stocked, sold, and eaten in 10 days. That means an incredibly short logistical chain and a lot of waste. That drives up cost. That cost can be negated in scale, but our monkey brain drive for convenience will never allow us to go the extra 5 minutes to the actual grocery store to spend half as much on fresh vegetables.
@@a.m.mcaloon9874oh and people are in their cars as much as Americans are around the world? And spend 40 min going to and from the grocery store? Look at rural vs urban body weights around the world. Look at time worked vs leisure time.
You know what's more convenient than the local gas station? My kitchen.
Its not just affordability, its convenience. Healthy food can be super cheap, but youve got to prepare it yourself.
Not just preparation. Quality foods must be managed by the household, from purchase to consumption. They have to be stored properly, which means different things for different foods. They must be washed, inspected, cut / trimmed, seasoned and cooked to their own respective needs / ways. Then, they must be consumed promptly, or they spoil.
It's obviously not an insurmountable endeavor to take care of all this for a family to enjoy continuous, high quality meals. But as an ever-ongoing process, household food logistics deserves more thought and respect than we (as a society) give it.
It can easily feel overwhelming even without realizing that it feels overwhelming, hence the ever-alluring draw of convenience of junk-foods. They can be bought cheap and sit in a pantry for months without ever being thought about. They can be eaten without even a plate; just grab 'em right out of the bag. And the copious amounts of sugar, salt and flavoring agents make them super-tasty. It's no wonder they are so popular.
As for price? It's so deceptive. You think $4 for a big bag of chips is cheap because the bag is a 16" tall & 12" wide, but it's all air. Compare the net weight of food in the bag vs the net weight of food in a can. Even after you open the can and drain away all the water, you still have more weight of food in the can than in the bag.
Wouldnt say affordable either, as ears of corn are pretty darn cheap
@@AaronCMountsCombine that with being overworked, stressed, exhausted, and possibly even in physical pain by the time you get off work. The effort involved in whole foods - from planning to preparing to cooking to the cleanup - is simply not feasible unless someone in the household makes enough money to support another person handling the cooking (while the cook also working a part time job outside the home cause lets be honest, nobody can afford to have an adult or teenager who isn't working under the roof anymore).
Pulls out a can of beans...
Shelf stable, inexpensive, nutrient dense (it has most of what the modern diet is deficient in), and requires practically zero preparation.
@@hypothalapotamus5293 have you watched the human bean? A man lives off of only canned beans for 40 days
"Uh oh..."... "Who am I?"..."What is life?" 💀💀💀
😂
It is broken.
Making homemade corn tortillas, cutting them up, air frying them, and season them for a tasty minimally processed snack. More filling too.
It’s important to note that this process does not really change the macronutrients that much, it’s more about how quickly your body absorbs it. “Healthy” is an incredibly undefined term in casual use. Eating these foods may make it more likely that you will over eat, and often do not have a good macro-nutrient balance. But technically if you ate only chips and some source of (complete) protein, took a multivitamin, you would have a balanced diet, you just might not feel as good because of the glucose spikes.
i believe there could be some more effects than that since the form of the food affects which enzymes your digestive system will release, which can cause some more imbalances than just glucose spikes
There's potentially more to it, further studies need to be done. That said, it does seem like it's being intentionally obscured as "ultra-processed bad".
you would also eventually develop insulin resistance which is VERY bad
@@brextonpopejoy2390 exactly and they dont mention that any food you didnt kill or pick off a tree yourself is processed
Exactly. For example, I ate some homemade chicken fajita this morning, giant cast iron pan filled to the brim with bell pepper, onion, chicken is 800cal. I had that 8 hrs ago, and I'm still full. If I ate 800cal of McDonald's or chips, I'd probably be hungry again in 1-4 hrs.
But theoretically, I could lose weight eating just chips and soda, I'd just be hungry 24/7
Pov: Crunchy friend linked this in chat faster than the speed of light.
that's so funny bc the comment under this was someone saying they shared this video with everyone LMAO
“Unlike an unprocessed kernel of corn” holds up can of corn 😂
It's processed but it is still corn.
A bag of potatoes good enough to feed a family is $5. This whole, “junk foods are cheaper” is a myth, they aren’t when you measure how full they make you.
They ARE cheaper, when you factor in cost and LABOR COST.
Please im begging you just look at the time and effort it takes to do these things.
Are you some sort of animal that can eat raw Potatoes?
Lol at the replies acting like boiling or air frying potatoes is some huge task. Go spend some time in the kitchen - cooking potatoes is e a s y.
I’ve gotten a 5lb bag of russet potatoes for $1 when on a crazy sale. Doritos are up to like $7.50. Sorry lazy people but junk food is NOT cheaper.
@@FogHorn1911you can microwave raw potatoes. In fact most microwaves have a potato button.
@@JazzerciseJustice How much do you think youre losing in opportunity cost by frying a potato? What were you really going to do at the house?
It doesn't help that the American school system doesn't really teach about nutritional health, the extent of people's knowledge about what to eat versus what not to eat is "calories bad."
It's why I think more people should take culinary arts as their elective in high school
How will corporations make money if we taught that in public schools... You think politicians would let that happen? They can't bite the hands of their handlers 😒
@@Frosto_BoiImo culinary arts shouldn't be an elective but a mandatory class. Everyone should know nutrition, and everyone should know how to cook.
@@pureteddybear_ it's just that many in the US flunk culinary arts for various reasons. For example, kids that think the class will be an easy "A" are usually weeded out when year 2 of that class starts
@@pureteddybear_ And the way you put it, that everyone SHOULD know how to cook and know nutrition, will also be the reason why American parents will argue it shouldn't be a mandatory class
This is sad.
The sad part is he chose the worst example. You know that's just cooking grains right? You dry them out, grind them into dust, then put them into a mixture of other ingredients and turn them into dough. The rest of that was just taking dough that could just as easily have been a tortilla that the exact same people consider healthy, then frying it and adding flavorings instead of baking it and adding flavorings.
@@squashiejoshie200000So, cooking bad. Got it.
@@squashiejoshie200000He didnt choose the worst example. Eggos, frozen premade meals, frozen chicken nuggets, and everything fast food serves. These foods have chemicals added that you don’t see in a kitchen, and maximized for pure carbs/fat, both of which made them much more unhealthy. That is ultra-processed food, and is less healthy for you compared to fresh food be it canned, frozen, or straight from a farm.
I dont think so. You can eat the most healthy food your entire life and death will still win. I'm healthy enough, I dont need to read every label for ingredients.
@@GelloWello he chose the worst example because this example doesn't really do any processing that regular cooking doesn't. Any of those foods you listed would likely have illustrated his point better.
"Eating pre-digested food" is such a great way to describe this
Half this process was just describing making a corn chip of any kind. Please eat regular food but lets not act like a Dorito is gonna kill you.
Or a tortilla in general
But the point is that these ARENT tortilla chips - a properly produced tortilla chip, something you could make at home is quite healthy in a diet. Ultra processed food gets put through focus groups to determine what to sell, say version A and version B. If group A eat more chips than group B, that’s what will be sold. Every year this happens, so these little dials of salt, flavour and other properties gets slightly tweaked to make the food more and more delicious, so that we can’t stop eating it. This is what drives excess consumption, food shouldn’t be hyper-palatable, it gets eaten so quickly that our gut doesn’t release hormones that tell us we’re full. Ultra processed food is not food, they’re industrially produced edible substances designed for financial growth
knowledge is always it's helpful
He never said so
You are still going to be eating poison if you eat a dorito
Waiter, waiter! More corn syrup and seed oils please!
Bruh
I love sneed oil
Also the myth that processed food is cheaper is a lie. I eat flatbread. Its about 30 cents per meal of 500 cals.
Pork is $2/# (I've gotten it as low as $1.5/#)
Butter is $4/#
Bacon is $4/#
Flour is $0.50/#
Bread making is simple. Costs about 80 cents in ingredients. $6 in cookware. Measuring cups ($2), whisk($1), bowl($2), baking sheet ($1). 2200 cals, 60g protein. Ez dub.
Those 2 things are fine
@@evolution__snow6784 no they aren’t seed oils are endocrine disrupting and corn syrup is I believe cancer causing but I might be getting mixed up with smth else
@Bentley216 nah, it's mostly a myth propagated by the dairy industry and keto head/carnivore diet people with no good human outcome data to support it. Corn syrup is fine to eat, it's just another sugar, no better or worse than sacarose or pasteurised honey
It's because a lot of these fresher foods have a much shorter shelf life. Meanwhile, those chips will last months. You can afford to lower the price because they will sell.
The apples? You'll be lucky if they last a week before people decide they're not worth buying. High turnover means costs go up to make up for the difference.
I do wish the healthier stuff was better affordable, but I will at least marvel over the steides we've made against hunger. It's not gone, but it is still lower than at any point in history.
i think any time a person can invest in better whole foods or bringing more upf to the plate the choice is very obvious. Because the food that is designed to sell is better for the seller.
@@sakesaurus1706 For ourselves? Definitely. I plan my meals around what vegetables I buy. But healthy eating is not a concern of the grocer. That's the problem.
@@IamMeHere2See yes. It's consumer's problem. We're being told not to care though. Especially with the new economic policy of cracking down on all private farmers. Only the UPF manufacturing juggernauts survive.
Even though overcooked foid that uses 100 harmful chemicals in its production is so clearly worse than private farmers that unironically promote reuptake of CO2
But this is a controversial topic
You haven't noticed your apples stay "fresh" for weeks at a time now? You should look into what they are coated with, aswell as other fruits, and it's not wax or a shiny coating.
This is far more complex than a short can ever allow.
Not only are foods like this often more affordable, they have stability and don’t require cooking making them better options for people with unstable housing. People with adhd like myself can also forget about fresh food which in turn wastes money we don’t have, and leaves us hungry because we want spend money twice.
The natural occurring variety of flavours in natural food is also triggering for many with sensory issues who need routine and familiarity.
I have a collagen problem that has caused problems with my teeth which break on pasta and soft foods, so now I’m really struggling with food and this is another aspect
Ultimately, it is better to be fed. But you also aren’t wrong in what you’re saying, it’s just more complicated.
Just to add to your point on the variety of natural flavors being an issue, so can the variety of textures. I absolutely love berries of pretty much any kind. The second a strawberry or cherry (I’m pretty sure those are scientifically categorized as a berry, idk about colloquially. Tho I do know that strawberries aren’t scientifically categorized as berries 😂) starts to get a bit old and looks mushy/wrinkly, no matter how badly I was craving strawberries the second I see them I not only just don’t want strawberries anymore, I don’t really want food in general anymore.
@@greenbeantm1096: Botanically, cherries are drupes (like their cousins, peaches and plums), not berries. But I wouldn't worry about matching the botanic definition of berry anyway; it has almost nothing to do with the culinary definition of berry. (For example, eggplants are berries.)
I have crippling unmedicated ADHD and I can still remember to cook food before it spoils. Have some personal accountability for christ's sake.
@@physicsunderstander4958 just because something is easy for you, does not give you the right to invalidate other peoples lived experiences.
I am overjoyed this is not something that you personally struggle with. But you only need a page one google search to find MANY of us do. Many also suffer from AFRID.
So while I’m glad you don’t struggle with this challenge, please educate yourself and do better.
With love 🩷
@@physicsunderstander4958 just because you are not struggling with something does not mean you are within right to invalidate others experiences.
I DO take accountability, but that doesn’t necessarily trying to force my round brain through a square hole solution,
If I buy produce I set reminders and I am always who cleans up the resulting problem should I forget.
All I was saying here is not to remove one of the solutions many of us rely on. That’s also part of accountability, finding solutions to prevent the problem. I am preventing food waste budget waste additional take out and going hungry by buying food that to many is less nutritious.
So please, check your internalised ableism, don’t invalidate other people because it is not your experience, and do better.
With love 🩷.
As long as the shareholders are happy nothing will change.
Idk if corn was the best analogy here.
Humans have a hard time digesting corn in its normal form. At least we can digest cornchips 😂
We can digest corn fine, it’s just the outer shell of the kernel that doesn’t get digested
they could of used peas, Broccoli, Lettuce, Tomato,
@@FishWash they could of used peas, or potatoes
@@FishWashyeah, I mean if we can’t break down the outer shell, we don’t really digest the carbs and nutrients from kernel. There’s a reason that humans started turning grains into bread. We have to do that to maximize calorie and nutrient extraction. Not here advocating UPFs, but some form of processing is really essential to our modern food systems.
@@FishWashThat doesn’t change their point whatsoever lmao
Thankyou for bringing more awareness to this issue!
Broken food brings sickness, which inhibits you from doing the things you want to do in your lifetime
Governments need to make whole foods more affordable and we need to be given more time in the day to cook from scratch at home
Oh yeah the government has always done a terrific job solving our problems.🙄
And how do you expect the government to do that?
@@your_-_mom The same way they make corn-based products and gasoline cheaper: subsidies.
Sad part is the feds actually subsidize junk food.
Honestly this is why women stayed at home. Because cooking proper meals takes time.
Wait hold on... did researchers just say it's like eating shit?
No it's more like, you know how birds regurgitate already chewed food to their chicks? It's like that
I'm going with "like eating shit"
In the bird example above: that food is mash for infants, WITH vitamins and minerals NOT JUST calories and salts like junk food.
I've always hated having no "convenience" healthy foods, besides protein bars or bananas
@@Waltitude shit is mostly nutrient poor because everything was already absorbed by the orgnism. processed foods still have most of its nutrients, they are just in a form that is A LOT easier to absorb. predigested food really is a better analogy.
"Eat ******"
Me: Okay *starts munching on Doritos*
Cutting up a steak is also a form of "predigested" food.
I shared this video with everyone. There is no way obesity could not include a large variety of factors. Access to real, non-processed food follows so many of the demographically health trends public health professionals see in communities.
What people need is more leisure time to be able to plan meals, go to the market, prepare foods, cook food, serve food, clean up after eating. Along with time to move their bodies. We should be able to earn a living wage in 32 hour work weeks.
By FDA rules processed meats can contain up to 16% rat as an unlisted ingredient in 2024. Rat meat is known to cause issues with fat retention and causes cancer due to what a rodent is typically exposed to. They now even use oven cleaner in some processed meats as both a microbial treatment and flavor enhancer
How would only working 4 days a week help? Your workdays are still just as hectic. You’d be better off working 7 days and 42h a week. You make more money and only work 6h a day, so you have an extra 2h each weekday for cooking.
Alternatively, you could just meal prep on the weekend and keep the same 40h job.
Edit: Also, few people are gonna be willing to hire you for just 32h a week because of the rules that kick in at 30. Most places it’s gonna be 29 max or 40.
@@ElladrilNo.
The studies are clear.
Less hours per day, less days per week.
7 days is insane.
You're describing laws that can and should be changed.
None of these are natural law, you know?
Absolutely. The problem is multifaceted and we need better quality of life. Also we deserve better quality of life, damnit
@@Elladril my current job calls 32 hour work weeks full time, and lets us decide how to allocate that time. It helps bc we get time for running errands during the week when fewer people are around. It end up saving me time all around so I can spend more time on caring for family.
Man just described cooking like it's an existential horror.
Cooking and soaking to absorb water also describes how soups are made and I don’t think anyone would call a homemade soup a highly processed food or say it’s unhealthy because of that.
It's just propaganda, the issue is people don't know how to control what goes into their bodies
@@SubtotalStar850-uh8pgexactly. Calling MSG monosodium glutamate to make it sound scary is propaganda too when it is literally naturally occurring in many foods like fish
@@frostbyte2096 it's like saying Dihydrogen Monoxide instead of water
@@SubtotalStar850-uh8pg yeah super dangerous everyone who consumes it dies /s
It’s processed. Maybe not ultra-processed, but it will get rid of nutrients.
You cant tell me he didnt get doritos dust is his eye
So essentially it's more efficient food, that is more easily digested.
More easily digested, yes. But almost all the good nutrition is lost in processing.
I love junk food though. 🤷♀️
There’s a certain ease of digestion that the human body is adapted to. We need some fiber (undigestable material) in our diet for our system to work properly and avoid overeating.
@@FishWashSo the real story isn't processed food is literally Satan, it's just eat some oatmeal now and then. I tend to like these guys but there's so much bad journalism in this one. Like the MSG dig. MSG has been shown to be a completely safe form of sodium intake, but time and time again it gets shoehorned into lists of food evils.
@@FishWash but when you go to the bathroom the corn is intact
Yes, any form of cooking (heat, or other ones that do similar things like acid) changes the structure of the food in essentially the same way that our stomachs do. Cooking is quite literally predigesting our food. For some foods it's absolutely necessary because we can't really digest them fully unless we give it a headstart by cooking it because our stomachs are not built to do so.
But ye, the ultra processed food isn't actually bad for you they're actually very good at giving you a lot of what humans need it's just that the ratios can be quite skewed and people don't have self restraint or know how to adjust their diets to account for it
"These foods are often more affordable."
Meanwhile, at my local supermarket, a small bag of Fritos = $5.49
Its just 5 dollars dude…
@@pindol69 Tell me you've never handled money w/out telling me you've never handled money.
"Often"
Meanwhile most comments agree with him and are repeating "can of corn or even better raw corn is more expensive than dorritos" lol
"who am i"
"what is life"
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Do you want ants? Because that’s how you get ants
The UN wants us to eat ants, and not for the reason that SF author Theodore Sturgeon did (his main character in a novel had a Formic acid deficiency).
I leave food on my desk for weeks, no ants here
Recently, I've been eating unhealthy foods like this after going through a hard time. Felt like crap. Just bought fruit and yoghurt and may try rice sometime in the future. Also got some seeds and gardening tools to try growing my own produce.
Wish me luck ❤
Ay you got this bro! Make sure you hit the gym too💪
Good luck
i recommend adding potatoes to your diet! they are healthy, cheap and tasty and have a very long shelf life. sometimes when i’m hungry i just eat boiled and salted potatoes as they are and it’s surprisingly tasty. you can also cook them in the microwave, for a lower effort option to boiling or frying
and speaking of root vegetables, carrots are a really good snack! when i just want a quick snack and don’t feel like cooking anything, i’ll just pull out a carrot from the fridge (possibly combined with some hard or soft bread plus spreading)
fruits are nice as a snack too, but they are typically more expensive, have a shorter shelf life and slightly more sugar than carrots
anyways, good luck! you’ve got this! ❤
I'm reading Ultra Processed People now and it's eye opening. I hit the grocery store on the way home today and shopped like I did 20 years ago - mainly ingredients from the produce department. Michael Pollan was right: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
Corn is a bad example since you can literally die of malnutrition by only eating unprocessed corn lol
Pretty sure that would happen with most foods if you only ate that food.
Guys! Wait until you learn how bread is made!
It's disgusting! 😂
They take this seed, crush it after letting it dry, add some stuff to it and make it into a dough, then bake it! My god the horror guys! No for real though these chips aren’t bad for you because they’re made of corn. They’re bad because they have 40 other ingredients like red-40 that are bad for you. Classic Washington post just saying garbage.
@@Niceler Wait what? You mean doing things like dumping tons of sugar into bread till it's legally considered cake in most countries is. . . BAD!?
i mean, bread isn’t the healthiest of traditional food. it’s very far from the worst, but it’s also very far from the best.
sugar is probably the earliest example of ultra processed food, where a single chemical is extracted to be used as an additive to other food. and everyone knows how healthy that is!
@@asdfghyter that's like all spices ever
"What is life?"
"Baby don't hurt me"
love*
Chips are not more affordable than corn at this point
This guy is severely underrated!
Doritos aren't meant to be a food item to fill you up or sustain you it's a snack item for the flavour rather than a meal item.
People should learn what's in their food and eat all things in moderation and don't over indulge in processed foods. Don't need to avoid them completely.
The difficulty is that they're made to be forgettable. Have a bowl of chips right next to you, eat them all, be sad that you ate them all and didn't notice, grab another bowl. Or have a bag next to you and accidentally eat a bunch.
Probably should altogether, theres no way there arent gonna be long term consequences
@@bloxer9563 The first 2 steps is to turn the corn into corn flour. The 3rd step makes it into dough. At this point, it's exactly the same as an unbaked tortilla. Are you saying burritos are inherently unhealthy? The rest of the steps are adding flavorings that have negligible impact on the human digestive system (or they would be banned if they were harmful in these trace amounts) If you look at the processes involved, they aren't Frankenstein creations. They're just cooked food. Heard someone describe sausage ingredients as "Mechanically reclaimed meat steamed off the carcass" That means they took the bones and shot steam at them to get all the meat off. It's still meat. From the same animal. It's not adding rat or horse. It's not lab growing some abomination and including that as meat. It's literally just the meat from the animal that's hard to get off with a knife, and easier to get off by using steam than by hand.
@@bloxer9563 i don’t think there would be any long term consequences in moderation, at least as long as there are no directly harmful additives or harmful chemicals naturally forming in the process. the main issue with ultra processed food is that it confuses the digestive system. if you mostly eat real food, the confusion is going to be minor and not really matter
i guess the main risk otherwise would be the same as for eating sugar in moderation, with things like affecting the bacterial culture of both your mouth and the rest of the digestive system
@@asdfghyter I agree, if there are no ingredients like red 40, it should be okay
As a diabetic, my body reacts very differently when i even attempt to eat ultra processed foods... I feel so sick that i don't even dare to put anything like a chip in my body.
They add sugar in most ultra processed foods
I'm so happy you called out the prices tbh. Most people leave it at "So don't eat this :)" as if we can all afford the freshest produce, or even have the time or energy to cook the "healthy" meals all day, every day.
You can have a snack as a treat, but it's very very important to learn moderation and fill in those nutrient gaps where you can.
Oh, life is so hard😿
So go to a food pantry if you're poor, it's not like we don't give people billions of dollars worth in food every year. You don't need the energy to take care of yourself you do it even when you don't want to or you don't really care to do it
@@SubtotalStar850-uh8pgMost people that are poor don't have the time in the day to cook. Just going to a food bank does litterally nothing to fix that.
@@arctic_lineYes they literally do have time to cook. All the have to do is take an hour out of watching TV or playing on their phone. Don't make excuses for laziness and victimhood.
It's actually not cheaper to eat junk food. Cooking shouldn't take as much time as most people imagine. Most people just cook to slow, focus on speed and efficiency and you can cook a large meal quickly. It will also provide you with more energy than junk food.
I feed a family of 8 for $300 a week with primarily whole foods, compare that to the national average. Shop at Aldi and get and ozone generator for your fruits and veggies.
Like I told the other guy, don't make excuses for not taking care of yourself. Spend a little bit of your screen time on eating well and feel better.
Then why doesn't FDA ban all ultra-processed food.
Money
@@BrandonBDNand people going to be mad
Because there’s no harm in it
Did anyone else watch this and realize not only is the example shit, but they literally described milling and baking, something that the Mexicans and Central Americans have been doing to CORN SPECIFICALLY for thousands of years
Yeah, this has real "I'm a zoomer and what does 'cooking' mean" energy.
The point of the video is not to dissuade you from eating chips. It's meant to inform you that chips (and other processed foods) are not nutritious. It's a problem that these inadequate foods are generally much cheaper than healthy foods. Think critically.
@@drownedzephyrBut the call to action was "don't eat chips", not "let's make healthy food more affordable". They said THAT chips are unhealthy and WHY. Then they briefly said that chips are cheaper (though at $6 a bag I beg to differ), but only to extenuate the problem of chips being bad for you. It may have been their intention to promote healthier eating, but it's pretty poor messaging. In the end it just sounds like typical news rag-baiting. Which is sad because there is a point in what they're saying.
@@drownedzephyrthey actually are fairly nutritious just skewed ratios. So it is essentially just that people don't have self restraint or the knowledge on how to adjust their diets to accommodate it
@drownedzephyr I didn't need a video to tell me chips are unhealthy, think critically.
I stopped eating out almost completely and cut down on chips and lost 10 lbs in a month just sitting at my desk / walking upstairs to get water. No other dieting. I eat rice or pasta or bread near daily. I literally have the exercise regimen of a Persian lap cat and have kept the weight off. Bad food absolutely makes a difference.
I want to steal this idea. If you don't mind:
What proteins do you use, and do you have hunger issues from the size of your meals?
@tscimb no, I just eat normally. I get ribeye and bacon wrapped asparagus and sausage stuffed jalapenos from the local butcher and we eat a lot of chicken and pork chops though I don't typically eat a lot of meat unless we fire up the grill or cook it in butter. I like making soup out of frozen veggies, leftover rice and eggs with a little sesame oil for breakfast. Or toast with cream cheese and strawberry preserves. Lunch is usually some kind of pasta or bread or potato with meat. Dinner is usually a big romaine salad with cheese, tomatoes, cucumbers, crispy bacon or soy bacon bits and a vinaigrette. The farmer's market is about to restart so we'll be getting lots of fresh produce. I get the big Costco bag of California veggie mix and coat it in parmesan and roast it in the oven. Or green beans with garlic and olive oil. I don't restrict myself except cutting brown soda pops, candy, and I don't eat microwave popcorn out of the bags or instant ramen (tbhq, other chemicals). Instead I bought a glass microwave popcorn popper and buy the kermels and just use real butter. The biggest change for me though is just not eating out and not keeping snacks by my desk to eat without thinking. I have to walk upstairs to warm up food or grab some to take downstairs. Way less stress/bored eating. I also eat a lot of nuts (peanuts, pistachios) and seeds (sunflower, pumpkin), sometimes on their own, other times on my salad. I really like cucumbers. Will polish off an English one in a single sitting. I think they might be naturally appetite suppressant. Or celery and peanut butter. I also try not to eat past 7 pm and make breakfast and lunch my biggest meals.
@@Theaterkid4L9733 Thank you so much!
The issue wasn't the food you were eating it was how much of it you were eating, if you had a serving of chips and stopped there you wouldn't gain any weight, you can eat anything and lose weight if you just eat less
@SubtotalStar850-uh8pg actually processed foods do make a difference, but you're right that portion control is also a problem. Processed foods are bad if nothing else because of the chemical additives, but scientific consensus is that they're just not as vitamin and nutrient rich as the whole version.
Obviously anyone can starve themselves to lose weight, but it's not exactly fun or sustainable or good for the body. My bil is tall and skinny, eats like 6 things, but is extremely unhealthy because the 6 things he eats do not make a rounded diet.
Long term, significant weight loss success will require physical activity, choosing healthy foods with a few controlled cheats, and portion control, but for a starting point, cutting some of the junk food down and eating out less is an easy way to start a lifestyle change. Plus it will be better on the pocketbook because chips and eating out are more expensive than buying organic where possible and cooking at home.
Me eating chips right now :
Shoot well I can't waste food.
Eats them anyway
They're not bad for you unless you overindulge. The process he was bitching about is the same for any tortilla
Okay so just don't finish the whole bag of chips? Gotcha
The problem is that even a small portion of those bags can easily hit a quarter of your daily caloric intake, and you will still be hungry because they are all carbs, little fat, little protein.
So you digest them very quickly, and then still have breakfast lunch or dinner a short time afterward.
Its best to avoid them entirely.
@@skylarc6063 Chips are typically high in fat since they are deep fried.
Pouring that bag of chips on your face is a wild commitment to a bit. I might not be the best at doing skincare, but I could NEVER do that to my skin...
What sucks is that he had seasoning and chip crumbs on his beard and hair, which would have been tedious to get out. Good informative video nonetheless.
I think a better way to put it is this stuff essentially dissolves in stomach acid as soon as it hits the stomach, so it doesn't sit and accumulate in the stomach like actual food, thus you never feel full (or even just less hungry) from eating it. Hence, we call these 'empty calories' or junk foods.
They are empty because all nutrients are destroyed in the process of making the food. The key to satiation is not filling up your stomach, but to give your body the nutrients it needs. Hunger is not a signal for you to stretch out your stomach and feel uncomfortable, but rather it is a sign that your body needs nutrients.
also the tastebuds feel the taste of the additives indicating rich food with lots of vitamins, but then the digestive system and liver will not receive anything which is a very stressful situation for body.
Scientists in 500 years: "Why did they eat poison?"
Dramatic much? It's not poison, but you are not supposed to eat the stuff as if it were replacing your meal.
The FDA doesn't ban stuff until its proven harmful. Europe doesn't allow stuff included unless it's proven safe
@@CptApplestrudl it is quite literally poison lol. Those bags of white sugar? Poison. That red kool aid? Poison.
@@samanthagibson5791 And the Filipinos cannot eat Ultra Processed food because we cannot but them. Instead we eat raw/fresh food because it is readily available in our own backyard or neighbor's backyard. 😊
@@CptApplestrudl Nope. You are literally eating poison. If you are at a grocery store, pick up a pack of sausages. Look at the ingredient list and look for the chemical Sodium Nitrate (E251). It is used as a meat preservative but do you know what it was used for originally? To manufacture fertilizers and explosives.
Substantial evidence in recent decades, facilitated by an increased understanding of pathological processes and science, exists in support of the theory that processed meat increases the risk of Stomach Cancer and Colon Cancer and that this is due to the nitrate content.
"this is a bad unhealthy corporate product"
**proceeds to eat said corporate glob**
Who could've guessed prioritising profit over humanity's benefit would lead to such monstrosities?
The faces 😭😂 It's quite odd how we've come to a point where "treats" are CHEAPER than what we actually need. Just think about that. The treat rewards are more available than what we actually need. And one thing for the end of the video; Apple's are processed but not to the same extent nor the same process. But they are processed.
It's only cheaper when you measure dollar per calorie. Which is a terrible measurement since the reason Doritos are so unhealthy is because they are so calorie dense.
If you measure dollar per pound, then apples are actually cheaper
You know it’s bad when Arizona tea is cheaper than water
Water is free dude, go to a Walmart and bring a bottle, refill it in the bathrooms. Just because you don't know how to do something doesn't mean it doesn't exist
@@SubtotalStar850-uh8pg just because you don’t know how to do something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist
@@cheese2587wtf are you talking about? Why did you just repeat his comment? When he talking about water is free?
The water from my faucet is about $4 for 1000 gallons.
@@nukeputin420 Nice home. I wish I had one
So what I'm hearing is that this is what my hyper metabolism needs lol
You forgot to tell people that over decades of eating this food our body will thanks us with a cancer
"Often more times affordable"
*checks notes*
Have you seen the price of Doritos lately?!?!?!?
Yet half of the comments are "yes yes, raw corn is more expensive than Doritos" 🤣
Most people just blindly believe everything.
I did a qualitative study in the same(in the sense that I researched multiple journal studies and studied the results that came through.), and also did a survey among teenagers about the same for a school project, as I tried to find a correlation between Cancer and UPF’s. Yep, there’s definitely a correlation. Multiple studies show a correlation with different types of Cancer. The survey however was very positive, and had a sample of Teenagers, who said that although they consume UPF’s often, they would take measures to lessen that consumption, and also would want to research more about UPF’s.
How massive is the correlation? Eating UPFs also corresponds to unhealthiet lifestyles and even eating red meat is linked to cancer.
Well carbs give you cancer so it's not shocking that carbs give you cancer
Also corn is horrible for all animals and shouldn't be eaten in general
You did a survey of kids to find a correlation..?
it took me a LOT of discipline to stop eating an entire bag of crunchy snacks like chips.
"These foods are often more affordable"
Have you seen the price of chips nowadays?
My guy took a corn kernel and proceeded to describe the exact same process that happens when you take wheat, turn it into flour for bread and use that bread to make pizza, except somehow this version is a bad thing because it's "ultra processed"
It depends on if the pizza crust is whole wheat or not. If it's not whole wheat then yes, it is ultra processed and it's not ideal to eat every day.
Ultra processed foods aren’t cheap.
Sugary cereal in 12 oz boxes is on sale at my grocery 2 for $5.
That’s almost 13 grams of (low quality, unbalanced in amino acids) protein and almost 300 grams of sugar for $2.50.
I could get a dozen eggs with almost 80 grams of (high quality, full amino acid profile) protein for $2.50 (or less. Prices fluctuate in my area) and avoid all that sugar. The egg also has other easily absorbed essential nutrients and fats. The cereal is doused in synthetic vitamins that are excreted.
It’s far more affordable to eat healthfully than to support a processed food habit. Feels better too.
Recently, it feels like of lot of the healthy food options for our family are being discontinued or made more expensive at many different stores and groceries.
"Man I can't imagine eating those nutrient pastes in dystopian future settings. Those sound so disgusting with how it's just a bar or goo of processed organic matter."
"Ohhh yummy yummy chicken nuggies."
As an important note, ultra processed foods are not inherently bad for you. They have lots of things in them, yes, but those things aren't necessarily bad for you when consumed in moderation. The FDA regulates nutritional labels specifically so you can be made aware of what portion isn't bad for you.
The really big issue with ultra processed foods is that they taste very good so it's hard to stop eating them once you've had an appropriate amount of them. They also tend to be cheaper and more convenient than fresh foods so you're getting lots of ultra processed foods and not as much unprocessed foods.
You know that slogan of that chip company? "You can't have just one." that's the issue with ultra processed foods.
This is incorrect the fda just lets them do it so they can have more money. Eating ultra processed foods lowers testosterone, causes cancer, and promotes obesity
People ate chips and burgers back in the 50’s and 60’s, and very few people were fat. It’s important to remember that chips are perfectly okay if you’re eating them with a balanced meal, and not just having a snack consisting *only* of chips.
Also those chips burgers and buns likely had just a few simple ingredients the body can recognize unlike the chemicals and food dyes in UPFs. Organic used to be the norm.
The most prominent thing that stood out to me as a child was when I learned that one of the reasons that people get overweight is because the hunger and thirst mechanisms in our bodies get interpreted incorrectly. In most people, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is misinterpreted as hunger mechanism. Instead of eating something when you feel a slight tinge, while your pee is dark yellow, drink water or tea. You might be surprised to find out that you're actually thirsty.
You honestly just educated me more in this 30 second clip more than anything else I’ve tried to learn about nutrition from
being somebody with IBS, these are what I survive off of. Come at me bra.
One thing of note:
The reason it struggles to tell you that you're full isn't because it's processed.
It's because your body doesn't gain as much satiety from carbohydrate rich foods. It's why you can easily down 2000 calories of chips and still feel hungry.
Protein, Fat, and Fiber don't have the same problems as they take far longer to digest, unlike carbs.... though too much fiber gives you gas and constipation. Ask any Vegan.
Fat is more calorie dense, so if you want to not be hungry, but eat less of it and, instead, make what you eat protein.
Perfect Example: I got some chocolate protein powder. Mix it with water, and it's 120cal and can keep me from being hungry for 3-5 hours.
Carbs, all carbs, make you more hungry that's how they work, the only good kind of "carbs" is fiber which is basically an anti-carb. It really frustrates me how the government says "oh this is unhealthy" but will also say in the same breath "your plate should be 50% carbs"
Damn I'm starving in less than an hour of drinking a protein shake.
@@VegetaPrinceOfSaiyans Hmm...
Be careful and check if yours has a lot of added sugar. While helpful if you're a bodybuilder, they can seriously kill any potential calorie and weight benefits. Sugar, on top of that, will spike blood sugar and lead to you feeling hungrier in the end when it tanks back down. A steady climb or fall is ideal in most cases.
That, and they're good to supplement, but they aren't going to cure hunger as a whole, so try and swing for ~1% per week. So, if you weigh, 200lbs, go for 2 lbs of fat lost per week. If you need to eat more to keep from starving, consider eating more protein/fat rich foods throughout the day as they'll increase satiety. I play a VR game called Beatsaber which can easily lose me ~200cal in an hour... and a 6oz steak is only 460cal, which is definitely enough to keep me full for longer than it takes to play beatsaber.
Another tip is to avoid gradual snacking. Eating 6+ small meals will keep you eating just enough to prevent your body from entering ketosis, which can curb a bit of the hunger.
Another tip on top of that is to wait as long to eat after waking up as you can. Your body suppresses hunger while sleeping, so if you use up as much of that suppression as you can THEN eat, you'll have fewer hours in the day to get hungry in the first place.
In the end, though, So long as you're gradually losing weight, you're fine, even if you end up consuming more calories.
For example, I mostly avoid carbs because they trigger my psoriasis, but I found that shocking my system for a week every month or two with a bunch of them actually had me dropping 2-3 pounds that week.
Just went through one and I went from 173 to 167. Give or take a pound or two for water weight and that's still great.
@@bluephoenixguy1094 It's just whey concentrate and isolate. I've always had this effect. I prefer to get my sugar elsewhere like fruit.
@@bluephoenixguy1094 I'm not trying to lose weight either. Trying to gain strength. That's all that matters at the end of the day.
I find it odd that so many dietitians are fighting online to say ultra processed food is healthy!!!
When you started with "predigested" and then pulled out some kernels of corn, you had me stressing 😅
I'm sure as hell not eating Doritos anyways.
No foods are bad, some just have a higher nutritional value!
Well some foods are just straight up bad, plenty of berries are toxic lol
The chip crumbs in his hair at the end 💀
They should be sued for poisoning
Ask a diabetic loved one about this. They experience it first hand as “food” raises their blood sugar as quick as a milkshake they decline to drink
That's because corn is high in sugar, right?
@@CptApplestrudl and extra sugar is added
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Are we still talking about chips? Why would anyone add sugar to that?
@@CptApplestrudl I can't think of a good reason, there's already enough sugar in there from the corn
let's not forget that these new "alternative meats" are even more processed than these items
Healthier food needs to be more affordable.
This stuff combined with the fact that a bag of Doritos can be 1/4 full….has me looking actively for snack alternatives.
It’s so true. I’m so sick of being a slave to processed foods. I used to (and still do sometimes) eat chips at night and other craps. Now I do my best to make it an Apple. I’m already seeing improvements, obviously.
Explained in terms everyone can understand!
And to top it off most families need both parents working and its damn near impossible some days to cook a home cooked meal when both adults in the house are wrecked from working all day. Even worse if you have opposite work hours then it puts all of the burden on mostly one person. Modern day life is broken beyond repair.
You didn't mention the loads of seed oils 😒
Welp, we need to eat those until our kids evolutionate and are able to eat ultra processed food just find
Says it right on the bag.
Please keep in mind that we have another word for processing food. We call it: cooking.
Ultra processed foods are taken a bit further than most conventional cooking... but all the breaking down and predigesting of food is mainly what we do when we cook stuff. And it's probably how we got to be what we are, since nutrients are more readily available in processed form, thus making us more efficient.
But we used to eat a lot of raw plants as well and that's the whole balance thing. You can eat processed stuff responsibly and you are 'made' for that. But you are also very much meant to eat more complex, less breaken down foods, since our digestive systems evolved for this mix of both.
A hopeful thing is, the longer you stay away from food like that the lesser the craving for them becomes due to changes in the gut flora
That explains why I can eat a whole box of cinnamon toast crunch.
I just got a CaseOh short under this talking about some “Frosted Flakes or lucky charms” lmao
i never thought i would have something in common with processed foods but here we are
Making crisps/chips yourself is so easy, and adding flavour is super simple
That "who am I" had me 😂😂😂
It's almost like companies want us to be fat... 🤔
"What is life?"
Baby, don't eat me, don't eat me. No more!
Thank you so much for explaining this. I always knew ultra-processed foods were bad, but never fully understood why.
im shoveling bugles into my mouth right now
Cooking food is basically the same thing as "predigesting" food too, though. If you think about it, chewing your food does that too. This whole concept actually explains why the bulk of skeletons found of early humans and other hominids, including our ancestors, typically had really good teeth. They were forced to chew things for far longer to compensate for the lack cooking techniques we're blessed with today. They also didn't have easy access to foods and ingredients that "rot" your teeth too, but many scientists believe it had more to do with the constant chewing than anything else
pre-digested food sounds like a fancy way of saying poop
"What is Life?" Punched me in the soul... Damn emotionally deep Dorito's...