I would love to make things like pasta and bread and all manners of cookies and muffins from scratch. I do these things when time permits (never pasta) but to do them all competes with chores, home improvements, showing up for my kid, etc.
I’m sorry. I’m not the most familiar with cooking especially for other people. When I wrote my previous comment I hadn’t read the definition of cat 4 yet. I’d assume it’s a tussle with how food with multiple ingredients (even salads with croutons) ending up in cat 4? I thought those kinds of things would be cat 3.
I don’t think the current definitions are particularly useful. I’m not an expert but I think there’s a marked difference between an emulsifier that interacts with your gut lining and a more benign additives.
IMO the food industry has been unable to agree on a more useful definition of UPF because of corporate interests.
I would love to make things like pasta and bread and all manners of cookies and muffins from scratch. I do these things when time permits (never pasta) but to do them all competes with chores, home improvements, showing up for my kid, etc.
I’m sorry. I’m not the most familiar with cooking especially for other people. When I wrote my previous comment I hadn’t read the definition of cat 4 yet. I’d assume it’s a tussle with how food with multiple ingredients (even salads with croutons) ending up in cat 4? I thought those kinds of things would be cat 3.
I don’t think the current definitions are particularly useful. I’m not an expert but I think there’s a marked difference between an emulsifier that interacts with your gut lining and a more benign additives.
IMO the food industry has been unable to agree on a more useful definition of UPF because of corporate interests.
That’s the vibe I got too.
I am pretty sure they are ultra processed even when you make It yourself.
The definition seems pretty broad tbh