Draft:Food processing

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Potentially edible! Food woo

Fabulous food!

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Delectable diets!

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Bodacious bods!

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Food processing is manufacturing processes applied to food harvested in its 'natural' state. It can include emulsifiers, additives and dyes.

Criticism

Chemophobia is a pseudoscience and appeal to nature is a fallacy. However in the 2020s, actual nutritional science studies show adverse affects of 'ultra-processed' food.

Bibliography

• Spoon-Fed: Why almost everything we’ve been told about food is wrong, 2020, Professor Tim Spector
• Ultra processed people: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?, 2023, Dr Chris Van Tulleken

See also

• Food woo