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roywiggins 3 days ago

it's pretty processed compared to sugarcane at least

tourmalinetaco 3 days ago | parent [-]

So homemade bread is ultraprocessed because the wheat was processed into flour?

d1sxeyes 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

From what I understand, technically yes.

I think there’s a lot of work to be done on categorisation but the underlying principle tends to be fairly decent: the more stuff you do to your raw ingredients, the less healthy they become.

marcus0x62 3 days ago | parent [-]

No, homemade bread would be NOVA group. 3. The flour itself is group 2 (processed culinary ingredients.) Mixing the group 2 ingredient (flour) with group 1 ingredients (water, yeast, salt) and baking it makes it group 3 (processed food.)

If you added something like Xanthan Gum to your "homemade bread", that would make it group 4 (ultra processed foods.)

d1sxeyes 3 days ago | parent [-]

Thanks for the correction!

Homemade bread is a processed food, not an ultra processed food.

johnyzee 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You can process wheat into flour at home. You cannot process sugar cane into table sugar without an industrial plant.

nobody9999 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

>You can process wheat into flour at home. You cannot process sugar cane into table sugar without an industrial plant.

That statement seemed off, so I poked around a little and, yes you can make granulated sugar from sugar cane at home[0].

[0] https://shuncy.com/article/how-to-make-sugar-from-sugarcane-...

Suppafly 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

>You cannot process sugar cane into table sugar without an industrial plant.

That's obviously false.

johnyzee 2 days ago | parent [-]

The refined sugar you buy in the store ('table sugar') is clarified with phosphoric acid and bleached using a number of other chemicals. In addition to this, it goes though a number of other industrial processing steps that you would not be able to perform at home. Hence, it is 'highly processed'.

Suppafly 2 days ago | parent [-]

So you can make it at home using scary chemicals that you can easily buy online. You can't just say 'industrial processing' and 'chemicals' and be believed.