The effect of processed food in human health, Frozen pizza, processed cookies and snacks, breakfast bars,
yogurt-in-a-tube and canned soups are all convenient, ubiquitous and
very bad for your health by almost every measure -- salt, fat, fiber,
cholesterol and calories. Moreover, many American eat processed foods at
the expense of more nutrient-dense and healthy real foods. It's hard to
avoid these "edible food like substances, calls them, but doing so will benefit your health.
Processed Foods
Pollan recommends that you eat real food and avoid as many of the 17,000
new processed products come on the market each year as you can.
Specifically, Pollan suggests avoiding "anything your great-grandmother
wouldn't recognize as food," any food with sugar listed in the top three
ingredients, any products with ingredients you can't pronounce and any
food that arrives "through the window of your car." Pollan promotes
"foods that will eventually rot," foods easy to picture growing or in
their raw state, and foods on the outside aisles of the grocery.
