Processed or Not?

Processed or not?
That is the question!

When you look just at that, processed foods make up a full 57.9 percent of all calories consumed in America.

Processed foods, they said, were any foods that “include substances not used in culinary preparations, in particular additives used to imitate sensorial qualities of minimally processed foods and their culinary preparations.”

Of course, besides being incredibly appetizing, that definition is also so expansive as to sound almost meaningless; especially when you consider how wide-ranging the examples were. (A list of the most common foods included “breads; soft drinks, fruit drinks and milk-based drinks; cakes, cookies and pies; salty snacks; frozen and shelf-stable plates; pizza and breakfast cereals.”)

The justification for pulling them altogether becomes a little clearer though when you look at where the calories were actually coming from in different groups. The heavy-hitters in providing calories in unprocessed or minimally processed foods were meat, fruit, and milk. In the processed category, most calories were due to added sugar and oil.

http://gizmodo.com/more-than-half-of-all-calories-eaten-in-america-now-com-1763884932?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow