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“That ingredients you can’t pronounce are automatically bad for that reason — that’s more of a skill issue.”
“I heard a doctor advocate for this in a lecture at a medical conference, and it’s nonsense.
You can have a fortified cereal with a long list of ingredients that’s healthy, and a cupcake with a few common ingredients that contains a caloric overload. The underlying assumption seems to be that preservatives are automatically bad, even though these are tested to be safe and are only theoretically bad if you’re eating a ton of them.
The kernel of truth is that ultraprocessed foods tend to be unhealthy, as they generally have longer ingredient lists. But even then, the simplicity of the ingredient list isn’t as reliable as just reading the nutrition label.”