> ultra-processed is a meaningless

You'd find plenty of definitions if you looked for them

> generally processed food lasts longer, is less perishable, often cheaper, etc.

Go ahead and list the negatives too lmao... what do you think the additives meant to prevent living organism from developing on the food do in your gut for example ?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11901572/

Ultra processed food benefit companies more than they benefit you

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SauntSolaire an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> You'd find plenty of definitions if you looked for them

Having a greater number of competing definitions does not generally make a term more meaningful. (Take "art" for example.)

	▲	toasty228 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Who says they're competing?

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9rx an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> You'd find plenty of definitions

Exactly. Terms that are meaningful have one generally accepted definition. When everyone and their brother are coming up with their own pet definitions, that is when a term is considered meaningless.

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toasty228 an hour ago | parent [-]

Oh there is a very well defined and accepted definition in science, but for some reasons geniuses on this forum, and online in general, like to pull their best "ackchyually" broscience definitions.

btw feel free to open a dictionary and discover that a lot of words have multiple definitions, it doesn't mean they're meaningless...

	▲	9rx an hour ago \| parent [-]
		"Meaningless" doesn't mean everyone fails to find meaning, it means that there is no general consensus on what it means. As you pointed out before, everyone holds their own pet definition. It means something to most everyone, but there isn't a shared understanding of what it means across the general population. While it is true that words often have multiple meanings while remaining meaningful, they do not have multiple meanings within the same context as is the case here. I am surprised that wasn't obvious to you. Hey, on the bright side, at least you got to learn something new today.