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https://www.buzzsprout.com/1411126/episodes/17271368-ultra-processed-foods.mp3
Maintenance Phase is a dope podcast that covers the bullshit of the diet/wellness world. It's appropriately scientifically-skeptical.
This episode adds some much needed context to the idea of "processed-food".
How processed is bread with its chemistry lab of ingredients & process to yield those ingredients? Likewise, cheese?
My understanding with processed food is that the main problem is much much less about how "healthy" the artificial ingredients are, and more about how the processing is usually designed around making the food more addictive (so you, say, crave a Cheeto more than you crave a carrot), and as a byproduct of the former, making it more calorie-dense, so you can consume more calories before you start to feel full.
Maybe better definitions on specific type of processing or their effects are needed than an unspecific term with a hazy borderline that lacks the precision of science.
All the "natural" and "whole grain" type breads still make me short of breath.
THE AVERAGE AMERICAN. I don't eat that bullshit :P
Ultra processed food is way more expensive than real food, so it's a shame if people are using money as an excuse.
Availability may be a larger problem. But with nearly every American (over 90%) living within 15 minutes of a Walmart (at the very least), this seems like an exceedingly rare problem for the majority of people.
I invite you to come shop at my Walmart :) We were one of the first stores in the country to get those little electronic price tags, so you can't say with any certainty what the price of anything is, anymore.
If the vegetables haven't already gone bad on the shelves, they will within a day at your place, and make sure to check the expiration date on every single package you pick up, because they're often past gone. Also, don't trust the frozen foods, they defrost in the trucks and on open pallets in the middle of the aisles.