#Processing

Charlotte Bilekoff.  Real Food, Real Facts: Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge.  University of California Press, 2024.  267 pages. Food processing is a big issue these days (witness RFK Jr’s pledge to get ultra-processed foods out of school meals) and I was interested to see what food

Jim Krieger of Healthy Food America sent me this Food Navigator article titled “Can ultra-processed packaged food play a role in healthy, sustainable diets of the future.” Uh oh.  Another attack on the concept of ultra-processed foods.  These, you will recall, are strongly associated in

In FoodNavigator, I read a report of a study finding that processing of corn into breakfast cereal flakes strips out phenolic compounds and tocopherols (vitamin E) associated with good health. Just as processing of whole wheat into white flour removes the bran and germ, so does the processing of

The Kendall Jenner-Ben Simmons is apparently no more. According to E! News, the relationship between Jenner and Simmons has “cooled off” and it’s because Jenner was never “fully committed” to Simmons. Via E! Online Three months after romance rumors between the supermodel and NBA star first

The Canadian Heart & Stroke Foundation has released a report on consumption of processed food consumption in Canada. The report is based on the NOVA (not an acronym) system for classifying foods by their level of processing: unprocessed or minimally processed, processed ingredients,