Fri, Jul-12-24, 15:07
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If vegans ate vegan foods in their minimally processed state, or processed them further at home, then they would not be eating ultra processed food.
For instance dried beans soaked and then cooked all day - not ultra processed. Even if they then want to mash those beans add in some dried herbs and salt, then form them into patties, still not ultra processed food. A vegan can nuke frozen veggies and it's still vegan - and still not truly ultra processed.
Depends on what criteria you use - some of the standards by which ultraprocessed foods are defined say that the food being processed in a factory and packaged in plastic with a label makes it ultraprocessed - which means a bag of frozen veggies would be deemed guilty. But so would any other veggies that are washed to remove dirt, then factory packed in a plastic bag with a label on it. By those standards fresh spinach leaves that have been washed in a spinach packing factory and then put in a plastic bag with a label on it would be considered ultra processed, even though nothing at all has been done to alter the spinach leaves.
It's mostly when they try to create vegan duplicates of non-vegan foods that what we generally recognize as ultra processing comes into play:
For instance, here's the list of ingredients on a vegan cheese substitute (first one that showed up on google):
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filtered water, coconut oil, food starch-modified (tapioca & potato), potato starch salt (sea salt), dextrose, calcium phosphate, lentil protein, glucono delta lactone, cheddar flavor (vegan sources), black salt (salt, herbs), olive extract, paprika extract & beta carotene (color), vitamin b12.
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Several ultra processed ingredients combined to make one extremely ultra processed food.
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