The Disturbing Reality Of Ultra-Processed Food
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- Ultra-processed food is taking over the grocery store, and it’s not just junk food either. A new article suggests some of the issues with these foods come from the fact that they’re ‘predigested’ - and we’re all eating a lot more of it than we think.
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We all already know that junk food and fast food is addictive and unhealthy for us, but ultra-processed food is causing a lot of problems with our health, our weight and more. This might be the reason why.
In this video we're going to cover the Levels of Processing as seen in the NOVA Classification, we'll illustrate the difference between food and ultra-processed food using an apple and an apple pie from Mcdonalds, we'll learn about starch slurries and how food manufacturers are breaking foods down to their molecular parts before reassembling them into whatever 'food' they can think of. We'll also take a look at one of the worst offenders, Pringles, and discuss the difference between potato chips and whatever this is.
0:00 - Junk Food is worse than you thought
1:56 - What is Ultra-Processed Food?
2:44 - Levels of Processing (Apple vs. McDonald's Apple Pie)
5:08 - Slurries
6:08 - "Food" vs. Food
8:45 - Bypassing the Digestive System
10:00 - Edible Food-Like Products
11:00 - Ultra-Processed Food is Taking Over
12:39 - Ultra-Processed Diet Study
14:08 - More Than Obesity
15:30 - Quality vs. Profit
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Changing the label of "ultra-processed" foods to "pre-digested" might be what will get people to stop eating it. Putting it on the front label of packages in big bold letters and the gross image you think of when you hear the words "pre-digested" could deter people.
It really is pre-digested, that’s why you feel hungry soon if you eat this stuff.
@@TheFrewahYes, but the word "pre-digested" will make people visualize someone vomiting into their mouth. Imagine an ad showing that and then cutting to a child eating cereal. That'll snap parents out of it. It's like those smoking ads that showed people losing their teeth or using oxygen tanks.
It depends. To me, someone who ferments a lot of my own drinks and vegetables, pre-digested sounds like a good thing as that is essentially what I’m trying to achieve with LAB. I think we should stick to Ultra-processed, it sounds nasty enough surely?
they're never doing that but it would be awesome
@@laurendamasoruiz You're taking the food you ferment apart at the molecular level and putting it back together again? Or did you not watch the video?
It’s so messed up that people struggling with obesity are shamed and blamed, when we live in a world where most of our food is designed to be addictive and unhealthy. It’s time for food companies to take some accountability.
The thing is too, they use artificial/synthetic ingredients to make people addicted . Messes with your taste buds where regular food is no longer satisfying. Horrible for kids
I love your channel avatar! Scalies and dragons are my favorite Sonas.
But yeah the food industry, especially the meat industry are literally built on slaughter that is not only bad but also ineffective. If rice and beans got subsidized by even a fraction of what the meat industry gets. Then those types of foods would be free.
Yeah. We eat too much meat in the west. If we ate less, we could eat higher quality that would be better for our health and the animals involved. However vegan alternatives can be part of this problem, as they are almost always UPF.@@kardoxfabricanus7590
Still a lack of discipline.
Well obviously yes, but the world doesn’t make it any easier.@@dkbroman
If you want to be really blown away, look at how us farmers and ranchers are being overwhelmed, over regulated and pushed out of our land. Just last year, another 65-70% of farm/ranch land was sold to big corporations and developers.
So you're saying that, with all these farmers losing their lands, and losing their careers, that people will only have the option of eating ultra-processed "foods"? There won't be any option for raw fruits nor raw vegetables?
@@stripedrajang3571 that is kind of what I was leaning toward. But my main goal was to bring a point of: there is much more going on than what we see at the moment. When only 1.5% (was 2% just a few years ago) of the US population is trying to feed America, and it is getting really harder to do so. In my area, with in just the past 5 years, I can point out how many farms have been sold off and have been built into warehouses.
@bethhuffman1095 , ouch. It sounds like we are doomed. We will have short lifespans, and suffer many ailments on our way to the afterlife.
😞 😢
They been did that to black farmers
It’s wild that eating a diet of majority whole foods, you know, food, seems unreasonable or impossible in our culture
It's not impossible
It’s because of the intense marketing these large food corporations have done for the past 100 years. Think about it… dieticians have been parroting that same phrase “part of a healthy diet” and “eat in moderation”. Those slogans came from food corporations, bribery, corruption between business and government entities. You can eat the junk food as long as you eat in moderation and when you fail/binge on the stuff because of its addictive nature, they’ll blame it on the individual for having no self control. They refuse to admit their product is the issue. They love it when the public blame it on the individual. Sorry for my long rant. I just have been saying this for the past 15 years and every year that has passed, it’s the same issue and people’s health gets worse
Because it takes time to make real food that doesn’t have junk in it and it’s fresh
It’s intentional. They want us to be entirely dependent on the big monopolies.
I often eat bananas for breakfast/blueberry on cereal and
Have uncooked broccoli/carrots tomato’s with almonds at lunch. A sandwich with sprouts tastes good too takes two min. Get rice cooker and have rice basic food you can add anything you feel like that day and let it cook alone until ready. Most of that is easier than microwave but it things are structured to make it hard and sometimes people are just constantly distracted. With a slow cooker just dump meat in w/ pre-made sauce and come home with cooked food.
Pringles "potato chips" are a good example of just how cynical, and downright evil, the large food conglomerates are about the actual nutritional value of their products. In the UK the makers of Pringles took the agency which collects taxes to the highest court in the country arguing that Pringles should not have the rate of VAT applicable to potato chips imposed on them, but at a lower rate. Their argument was that Pringles did not contain enough potato to satisfy the legal definition of a potato chip!
Pringles doesn’t even call them “chips” (for legal reasons; apparently they would have to make it explicit on the label that they’re not made from real whole potatoes and they don’t want to do that, so they call them “crisps”). I rarely buy potato chips, but if I do it’s original Lay’s, which actually do only have 3 ingredients. (Though the oil could be one or more of four possibilities, so still not ideal…)
@@allein1001 I think there are some different names used in different countries.
The British say 'crisps' for what Americans and Australians call 'chips', and Americans say 'fries' for what British and Australians call 'chips'.
But I see your point. The big food companies have no need for chefs and nutritionists; they rely on their lawyers, chemists, and marketers instead.
@@rossmurray6849 True; I was just thinking about the American version (though on their UK site they are also called crisps). I vaguely remembered something about them not being able to legally call them "potato chips" in the US, because they are not made from whole potatoes. From what I found, they can call them "potato chips" in the US as long as they make it clear (outside of just the ingredients list, I guess) that they are made from processed potato powder, but I assume they don't want to call attention to that on the front of the package, so they call them crisps instead.
just read the ingredients it says potato starch as like the top ingredient that doesnt have anything but starch its basically dextrose theres nothing wrong with eating pringles or potato chips if you are within your calorie goal and it fits your macros just take a multi vitamin if your worried about nutrients i have stomach problems though so i cant eat any of that i have to eat whole plant foods for my stomach to feel good i could eat meat to help more but im vegan and i couldnt eat meat myself
@@RealJonzuk "Just read the ingredients" IS the con that food manufacturing conglomerates want the public to fall for. Food labels appear to provide all the information needed for people to assess how "healthy" a product is. It is not that simple. What has happened to those ingredients during the manufacturing process makes a big difference to their effects on consumes.
A good example is peanuts versus some brands of peanut butter. The food labels may suggest their impact on consumers is exactly the same. That is not so. The peanut butter is more likely to contribute to someone gaining weight and developing diabetes - although in moderate amounts I consider it is still a healthy food.
I quit fast food and proceeded foods a year ago and my life has radically changed! Loss 40lbs, feel healthier, depression cured! Whole Foods are the way my friends cheers
I know how you feel it’s wonderful to eat what out ancestors did 😊
I agree. Whole foods helped me heal after the medical establishment failed.
yes! i can agree based on my experience
They make these foods ultra addictive. Sugar and fat and the government subsidizes the ingredients. We shouldn't have to pay three times more for organic food. This does need to change now. Totally agree with you!
A lot of the salt and sugar is used to masque the taste of metals contained in the processed foods as well. It's not just inserting addictive qualities, it's also corporations straight up hiding how detrimental these foods are to your health
I don't agree with people saying that ultra processed food is cheaper... you can buy canned beans for nothing, frozen green veg are also really cheap... there are a lot of seasonal fruit and veg that are usually cheaper also. Supermarket brands of like rice, oats, and that are cheap. You can also get cheaper meats depending on the cuts you choose. People should be taught this in school, maybe... and specially how to cook 🤷♀️
My grocery budget in 2020, before my IBS dx, was $75 a week. I ate lots of junk food and salty crap.
Now, 4 years and 16% inflation later my budget for TWO weeks is $60. I buy nothing but whole foods now. And lots of spices.
Because that‘s the case. People buy processed foods and snacks and then wonder why their grocery trips are so expensive. Rice, broccoli, bananas, apples, beans, peas, onions, fresh garlic, tomatos, chickpeas are all dirt cheap. Coupled with good quality seasoning and you have no excused to keep eating ultra processed shit financially speaking.
Same here. By ONLY buying single ingredients, with an emphasis on intact ingredients, my family of three EASILY saves $10,000 a year, over the standard American diet. That's solidly two car payments!@@thegriffinnews
Your point on beans and other staples is absolutely spot on.
Meats are processed a lot, though.
@@Sabrina-sx9flI think your not taking gas electricity overall rent into account that literally EATS away money going into that.
So basically Ultra-Processed food is basically one big science project…
Guess who the guinea pigs are... 😳
"food chemist" is an actual job, and that should give everyone pause.
Yup
Put real butter outside and put out a butter product outside and insects will not touch it.
And we're the lab rats.
Processed food is expensive . I really don’t understand when people say they live in a food scarcity location and all they buy is processed food . I lived in a place where food was scarce , never saw a packaged item that we could afford .
Was feeling very good that I was making my family homemade peanut butter protein balls as I watched this. I make a lot from scratch but I’ve really upped my game as I continue to learn about ultra processed foods.
drop the recipe please! I need a handy snack as I have adhd and find having three meals a day difficult. i need snacks which aren't ultra processed!
Yes please drop the recipe!!
The phrase “pre-digested food” alone, just gives me the chills.
Same here 😢
sounds like fermented foods
The thing is.. it clearly says that the PROCESSES *are similar* to digestion, not that the food was pre-digested by someone or something.
It’s a step away from “pre-chewed” in terms of creep factor
We give pre-digested food to babies. The process she names is hydrolysis. We hydrolyze milk and sell it to babies because it eases digestion and reduces the risk of allergen exposure. It's considered hypoallergenic. Additionally, normal milk is processed through pasturization, it is considered a process product. Technically, even the eggs in America are processed to the point where they are no longer tempeture stable and must be kept in the refridgerator- this is not the norm for the rest of the world. She lists both of these products under the unprocessed tab without note.
Hydrolysis is not scary and if it is harmful only sometimes, then she should have explained why, when and how.
Day 14 without it. All my acne and psoriasis went away. I might have to stick to this for life because it even brought back my energy and motivation. Haven’t needed a tums either! I used to have tums daily.
Omg same actually! I'm literally on day 15 haha ! no Upf, junk food, treats etc etc. Go us!💪
When I worked at a grocery store and was eating candy and soda/energy drinks constantly, my acid reflux was so bad. Since I switched to water, and moderate consumption of candy, my acid reflux is basically non-existent.
I'm also on day 14! Is it possible the youtube algorithm blessed us all with the Chris van Tulleken video on Dr. Rangan Chatterjee's channel at the same time? 🙈
haven't seen that video but i'll check it out! so cool that you're on day 14 too though!!@@esthervolkening3568
May I ask what your diet generally consists of? Because I'm breaking out with cystic acne for the first time in years.
Kiana hopefully you see this! I love what you are doing here on RUclips! I have always searched for someone who can make this kind of information interesting and fun to listen to! I finally have something to send my friends instead of boring studies and article that they will never read! Bless you and your work. Your videos always make me happy and brighten my day!
Thank you for this awesome vid!! Showed this to my class after reading “The Jungle” and…they came to the conclusion that not much has changed, we just evolved the way “gross food was made” 👏🏼👏🏼
Kiana is real to the end. She even has an unprocessed potat on her couch
I'm glad I'm not the only one who says "potat" to describe precious chonky animals.
blue is my spirit animal
He’s always there, is he real or a very realistic plush?
Edit: omg I saw him move, he’s just a very good boy.
This is insane. In Poland at 90`s obesity was a small percent of society. We don`t had good diet - white bread, pork, milk and dairy and vegetables and potatoes. We also lived without calories calculators, box diets, fitness club etc. but now after 30 years of expasions corportions like a Mars, Unilever, Nestle and fast foods we have 20-25% obesity rate include many childrens.
Food industry is like a liquor industry... they earn bilions of us/zloty/euro but society and goverment spending bilions too, to fight against impact of liquor and bad food side effects.
Actually, the government couldn't care less (at least in the US)
In the USA, being unhealthy means profits for the pharmaceutical companies.
no dokładnie :/
@@DylonsBBGorl I would actually look into U.S. government policy (USDA and FDA) - it has a very interesting history.
The U.S. diverges from Europe in that the U.S. only bans things which have a demonstrable link to poor health outcomes inherent to the product/chemical/etc.
European countries ban things based on lack of knowledge about what the impacts could be and the policy is applied unevenly.
The U.S. also sets the standard of self-regulation (I.e. we require companies give you all of the calorie, ingredient, and nutrition info - you decide whether or not to eat it or how much of it to eat). European countries tend to have less accessible information on calories and nutrition, but the governments regulate portions and ingredients more.
It’s also tied to the infrastructure of the U.S. versus European countries. European countries are smaller which makes public transportation viable. The U.S. is made up of expansive rural areas, exurbs, sprawling suburbs, and small but highly active megacities. Lack of options for transportation and inability to unify the entire country and its diverse settlement patterns means that food deserts are inevitable in some capacity (though it can definitely be reduced). Over-regulating based on suspicion alone would cause starvation and go against the theoretical ideological pillars of the United States (innocent until proven guilty, laissez faire, government out of business and personal lives).
This isn’t a defense of the U.S. nor is it a slight against Europe - there are just many factors that go into this.
@@DylonsBBGorl something something lobbyists and corn subsidies something something
Kiana, I started watching your videos because they're nice combination of interesting facts featuring some fun real life examples, all pretty well presented - generally just a nice option to watch while doing something less absorbing to have a bit of fun and learn something new about the topic that is pretty interesting for me but not enough to do my own research. But this video is an eye opener. It really made me feel like "I was blind and behold, now I see.". I would never expect to be given the amount of incredibly valuable information in just few minutes - they have truly changed my perspective and I really hope a lot of viewers can say the same. You are doing an amazing job, spreading such awareness and knowledge to your thousands of subscribers and other viewers can make such an impact. Thank you and please keep going
Girl you’re spitting bars in this video! Super clear communication. Well thought out. Thank you 🙏
I read "In Defense of Food" when I was 18, which sent me down a path of unlearning the bad eating habits my parents had passed down. I learned how to cook and actually followed the oft-repeated advice of shopping around the perimeter of the grocery store. I am now in my 30s, and I am the only one in my entire family who is not overweight, even though I still eat things like pizza and dessert almost every day... they're just homemade!
Thanks for another great video Kiana! You are killing it 👏
Love that for you!!!
I cut out all the processed crap this year and everyone looks at me like I’m speaking gibberish or I’m wrong 😂
Homemade pizza is the fuckin BEST.
Yesss!! I love that book! It made me change my habits too, and see that making food with whole foods is good for me in all the ways. I'm happy to see someone else who knows about that book. As the main cook in my house, I'm able to integrate healthier foods into our menu, and it feels good to improve the diet of myself and my family 🫶🏾 Congrats on changing your life for the better! I love that you can enjoy all foods, but you prepare it yourself with fresh, whole ingredients. Food is simple. Food is pleasure and energy. It's more than its parts (carbs, protein, fat). It is an entire experience ❤❤ Best of health to you and everyone ❤️
Thanks for the rec, i’ll check out that book
Kiana, could you please make a video or series on "how" to eat a less-processed food diet? Like meal plan tips. Also, how about a video on how to eat good, wholesome, meals when on the go? Like an antidote to fast food? Been subbed to you from near the beginning. I love how your channel has evolved, always loved you content!
There is a great book on basics by a RUclipsr Mary Shrader called The Modern Pioneer Cookbook. What’s great is she gives a way an extensive how to guide that goes along with her book for how to teach it to kids of various age groups.
Yes please I would also like that video
Something that's been helpful for me is buying pre-cut, pre-washed fruits and veggies, then portioning them out into grab-and-go containers. Makes it easy to get a healthy snack with zero prep or thought with minimal prep.
@@elihinze3161this is what I did when my kiddo was small. It helped tremendously! It’s worth the slight extra $ to keep from eating garbage.
Especially for a poor autistic person who has violent texture issues with all foods
As a food engineer myself (didn't do my thesis so never got the diploma), I already knew all of this stuff. However, the way you put this information in the video showed me a new perspective of it, which actually made a lot of sense. I usually check into the nutritional facts label to see how nutritious something is, and then focus in the ingredients. I don't tend to consume when I see tons of ingredients, but I know the use of some of them and don't mind them much at the moment of eating.
Honestly, never thought of hydrolysis as pre-digestion, but it makes so much sense.
Excellent video.
Just wanted to say thank you for creating videos like this, and to please keep up the great work!
"the only thing that they're designed to nourish is a healthy profit margin" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Seeing this, shows why they're more depressed people now, than the Great depression
And the way to get a healthy profit margin is to give the people what they want, not what some dork working for some federal agency thinks the people need. Just look at Disney and CNN!
I ALWAYS say that to my family every time they try and say some ultra-processed product "is food", I tell them "that's and edible product". I hate the fact that the food industry is allowed BY LAW to produce and sell this absurd slurries. That should be illegal
You should check out products from China and other countries in Asia. OMG straight up chemicals. Japanese and Korean food used to be healthy but now there’s a huge proliferation of junk foods, it’s crazy
You’re so right. Edible stuff isn’t food. Did you watch the video on school lunches. Those things were gross.
My sis is really into Spindrift. And holy moly, i tried one and it was a total migraine trigger for me. I cannot believe what it says as the ingredients.
@@eatnplaytoday This! Most people would be shocked to know that in Japan, far MORE pesticides and preservatives are legal to use, than in the USA. It’s nuts!
The FDA is bought and paid for by the food industry. Government can’t save us and it won’t.
Thank you for outlining this problem! I've actually never heard of it and it shocks me to see the reality on how many things are produced.
Kiana I love these types of videos! I know you said you planned on changing up how you did some of them and I think these are a great addition to what you’ve already been doing 🥰
“Edible food-like products” that one hits hard 😧
Right that’s the one that got me
Yeah but take out the 'edible' part
She's very generous. But junk food has evolved to include nuggets, sausage, bread/cake, butter, and juices. I call it fake food. Stuff you can not find in nature.
I was eating teddybear grahams while I watched but with each passing minute of the episode the grahams tastes more grainy and fake and gross.... so I put the bag down and will throw them out.
It’s no wonder I still feel hungry after eating cereal for breakfast. I’m making the switch to homemade foods too
yep it's just a trick to your brain that they taste "good"
Thats something Chris Van Tulleksen recommend people to do in his book about ultra processed foods- keep eating it while learning about it, while reading his book for example. Over time the food becomes more and more gross to eat. Its a psychological trick he picked up from smokers.
When I came back from Japan, a lot of snacks tasted bad
Man even the frozen Healthy Choice and Lean Cuisine meals were thrown in the video and even protein bars and I'd buy them all the time thinking they were healthy and convenient 🤦♂️
I just always love how you approach every topic & subject with the intention to educate & free us consumers with the truth on what we're potentially putting into our mouths! ❤
love this video you provided the information in a direct and informative way without any scare tactics or sensationalism
People don't reaalize that digestion itself burns a lot of calories. That 0.9kg weight gain in the study participants is the result of the accumulated energy of 2 weeks worth of digestion that will be otherwise spent if they ate unprocessed foods.
This is a good point. One of my problems with this video is that I feel she fearmongers too much about processing and hydrolysis, which she mentions by name. These practices do have their purposes. Milk is processed through pasturization, though she doesn't list it as such. It's also commonly sold hydrolyzed or "pre-digested" TO BABIES! because it eases digestion! (and reduces exposure to allergens). We want to fatten babies up! Giving them pre-digested food is sorta the whole point 😅
@@Vault-Born yup. It's all context dependent. I mean... Even cooking will predigest food. That's how we can afford to have massive brains compared to other primates. Processing itself is not always bad, we just have to balance our energy demands carefully that's all. One thing the video fail to mention is the phenomenon of comfort eating. That's another topic altogether.
It's not. The weight gain is because the subjects ate more calories with processed diet. Yes, there is a line about matching diets with calorie levels, but when you read the first graph or the study itself, it sayd that the participants were not restricted in the amount of food they wanted to eat. They literally have graphs that shows that their calorie intake was higher in the group on processed diet. It's even in the summary - they proved that processed food is making you less full ergo you eat more calories and that leads to weight gain. THE PARTICIPANTS WERE NOT EATING EQUAL AMOUNTS OF CALORIES ON DIET 1 VERSUS DIET 2.
@@McJusti Oh I misunderstood, the video clearly said they having exactly the same amount of calories.
You need to be in a daily surplus of around 500 calories to gain that much. You're telling me there was a difference of more than 500 calories daily just from digestion alone?? That's impossible. And that's not even taking into account that this is just false. Ultra processed food does not use less calories for digestion. The calories burnt digesting purely depends on how much protein, carbs and fats were in the food and not how processed the food is.
Sometimes "chocolate" desserts don't even taste like chocolate, they are just brown and sweet so your brain thinks of chocolate. But when you look at the ingredients and "kakao powder" is on the 34 place and you taste again with your eyes closed you taste the reality.
My family brought me back chocolate from New York and I'm in Ireland where we have really good milk. Our milk chocolate is so chocolate and good. When I tried the need York one I thought it tasted like sugary foam with a hint of chocolate so that must be it
This is basically what "white chocolate" is too and milk chocolate
@@NumbaOne it's funny, the older I get, the more milk chocolate taste fake/ non-choclately.
Because the older you get the Sh!ttier and cheaper ingredients they are and they put less and less cacao
I worked at a deli when i was a teenager and the cheapest most processed meats said things like "a ham and water food product" on the package. I was so grossed out by it.
Excellent delivery. Informative and clear. Going to show it to my class tomorrow😊
I read/listened to ultra processed people at the end of last year and it 10000% changed my relationship with food. I ditched diet foods, low sugar, low fat UPF and started making my foods from scratch. Picked up a $15 bread maker at goodwill, learned how to make tortillas and pita bread at home, and even began baking yummy high sugar treats and am still losing weight! I’m down 16 lbs from the new year and I eat whatever the heck I want as long as it came from Whole Foods made in my kitchen. I recognize that I’m privileged to have the time to cook from scratch and mainly avoid eating out but even 50% reduction in UPF is still better than nothing.
I found that if I eat a homemade cookie I just don’t seem to want more than 2. I can stop myself and feel satisfied. But if i buy a sleeve of thin mints I can’t stop until the carton is gone!! The UPF is so addicting it’s scary.
So happy for you!! :) sounds great.
Alright, TBH, thin mints are dope!
Someone I grew up with works for Pepsi Co. as a chemist; they said to never drink any of the soda or consume any Pepsi products; working there has turned them off drinking soda, period. Thanks for all your research, it's very helpful to watch in a short, easily (dare I say) consumable video.
Coca-Cola owns a company that makes Kombucha and that’s what you can and should drink since it’s probiotic. You can make it yourself.
I heard that kind of story million times.
Pepsi ingredients are not secret....
Everyone knows its shit but people like it
Woah please share more
Can you elaborate on this please?
I would like to know more!
There’s a crazy hike in youth cancer, wouldn’t surprise me if it’s the food.
your channel is amazing thank you for working so hard to spread this information. plus you dont bug people about liking and subscribing, you let us make that decision for ourselves. people like you are what this world needs more of!
I have found the more I have cut out ultra processed foods, the less I want them and the less appealing they are. Even when I eat them they are nasty. This was so interesting!
Cool 🆒. Thanks for sharing that information ℹ️
I do remember when I lost weight the first time and I was eating very cleanly I had such clear skin, good mental health and most importantly for me-my migraines were practically completely gone. I have since struggled into bad habits again and I need to lose that weight again. But, I did learn something new today from your video, no wonder I’m practically starving an hour after eating every meal of processed foods. I never feel full unless it contains straight fresh ingredients. I love the work you do in these videos and they truly are a service to society! ❤
Thank you so much for making this video. I shared it to my personal facebook and I hope that the people I love watch and change the way they eat, and help change the foods the people they love are eating.
9:16 not related but I get so happy every time I see your dog in the background of your videos !
So, it really is healthier to bake my own cookies using just regular sugar, flour etc than it is to buy them in the store. Good to know.
Your videos are so insightful! You're doing great work! And same girl, I just keep eating/getting healthier
Sugar isn’t good but you can make good bread with almost no sugar
There was a dietician that said if you cooked all your unhealthy foods you’ll lose weight.
Whenever I make dessert from recipes I find online or elsewhere. I usually add anywhere between 50%-60% the amount of sugar listed. Less sweetness and it lets other flavors shine through.
make sure you get good quality flour, though. lots of flour in the US is highly processed as well
@@avgperson6551 yeah I'm european, food is already less sweet here.
Truth. I like baking, and one thing I've noticed very consistently with home baking is that it's usually super easy to bake something that tastes much better than a packaged store product, but it's extremely hard to bake something with a more appealing texture its packaged product equivalent. And texture can be so addictive. Ugh. However your video has inspired me, I keep slipping up in my quest to become healthier but I'm not giving up!!
industrials play on the appeal of texture because they know its the only thing an industrial product can do better than an at home product , i hope you will be able to become healthier just like you want to ! keep it up 👍
I‘ve had luck with pouring milk over my freshly baked cakes to get a super moist but still somewhat airy texture (when coupled with a recipe where you have to whip eggs a lot and avoid butter to keep it light). Have you tried that?
No it isn’t you just need to get into the world of leaveners, baking additives and crazy stuff like tangzhong techniques
You’ll stop when something almost kills you.
If you like bakimg, you may want to try to make Kombucha. It’s a probiotic drink that you can buy in a store. As tasty as any soda but more expensive if you buy. It takes a week to make one batch
this is incredibly informative. thank you for sharing this!
This is all very well explained. Thanks!
I quit UPFs back in July after a miscarriage. I have PCOS and I was very much overweight and undergoing treatment to induce ovulation. Even though the treatment got me pregnant, I was still unhealthy and lost the pregnancy. I read Chris van Tullekens books ultra processed people and that made me aware of the issues with my diet-that even products that are made to look innocent and edible are certainly not. I completely changed my diet and make most things from scratch. I also read Mindy pelz’s book Fast Like a Girl. Since then I dropped the weight to a normal BMI and I just conceived naturally. In addition, my acne cleared up and my mood has improved so much it’s crazy.
Congratulations! You may also like Lily Nichols' books, Real Food for Fertility and Real Food for Pregnancy. She's done a ton of research into nutrition and what whole foods are most nutritious.
@@angelasimons3473thank you! I’ll look into it
I'm so happy for you!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Congrats! I also follow Dr. Mindy, she's great.
That’s incredible. How do you find time to make all your food from scratch?
Thank you Kiana! As the the mother of 2 teenage daughters, many try to shame parents like us by slapping the "Almond Mom" label on anyone combatting this toxic food system by encouraging eating whole, healthy foods rather than fighting the corporations poisoning our kids.
My wife and I intend on being “almond parents”. Let everyone laugh while your daughters are healthy, smart and pretty while their kids are fat and lethargic
@@hornetguy9063period! Same here, the kids can call me whatever they want.
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As long as you guys completely keep junk food out of the house. But if you keep it in the house and get mad at your kids for eating it, then that’s ridiculous.
Oh, and pro tip, instead of shaming your kids if they gain weight, take a deeper look into why - and mega mega important part - try to keep them busy doing things they like! sport helps.
Honestly the 'almond mom' label is overused and misused now. I would say any parent who makes sure to give their kids healthy and whole foods, with snacks in high moderation, are simply good parents! I could have sworn that almond mom label back then, was meant to refer to literal anorexic/food disordered parents who pass the same habits on. Which is clearly different than healthy eating. Now, people just use it for anyone who makes mindful food choices. Really sad. Great job, keep doing good for your kids and they will live longer lives.
@@achro2539 ya I almost never have junk food in the house. Can’t eat what you don’t buy.
definitely one of my favorite videos, I have great admiration for your work ❤️
You made it all make sense, and with that, you just got yourself another subscriber!!! Thanks.
I was a little suspicious since I don't believe that just because something is processed or "unnatural" it must mean that it's unhealthy / unsafe, but your exploration on the digestion aspect and continuous hunger makes total sense. I've been enlightened. Thank you!
Why did youu not believe that something being un-natural or processed is unhealthy?
@@Dee_Dee794 Because processed things, like medicine, can be beneficial and healthy in moderation and right doses. Plus, she also gives examples in the video of foods like cheese, bread, and canned fruits which can be considered processed while being healthy, unlike ultra-proccessed foods such as chips and ice cream.
@@arcanaz6583 Ohh okayy, thanks for the explanation!
@@Dee_Dee794Cooking, for example, is also a human invention. Cooking, dare I say, is a form of pre-digestion as well.
If you need a factory or a well equipped laboratory, then it’s ultraprocessed. Not if you can do it in your kitchen. Vegetable oil is made in factories and it is gross. Multiple heat treatments and hydrolysis. Stick to olive oil. Also, stay away from deep fried food at all costs
My mom was a personal trainer and watching this reminded me that my mom taught me to always stick to the perimeter of the grocery store, where the produce is and to go down the isles last if we really needed to because that’s where all junk is. I’m glad she taught me that.
Are you the weirdo in the profile picture?
Yeah, they taught me this in school in Sweden. That’s why milk is alway far from where you enter.
Great advice. I'm using it. Tell your mom I said thank you.
Your sources are actually solid and you are empathetic. Which is pretty rare to fnd, these days. Subscribed. 👌
you are perfect, supporting everything with evidence, and the way you explain it, the video you did is incredible. love it, keep it up
This is the best explanation of ultra-processed food I've ever heard. It does such a good job of showing how nasty the stuff is, especially accompanied by the visuals, and despite how much content I've watched about this over the years, you've still managed to introduce new perspectives to me. It's actually impressive!
thank you very much!!
This is one of the clearest, most concise, and persuasive arguments against UPFs I’ve ever come across. The ideas shared in this video are capable of changing countless lives the world over. Thanks for all you do Kiana, seriously.
Frankly, she is merely preaching to the choir.
This video was so enlightening, thank you so much!
73%?! Love the zoom in on doggo at the end. You're my new favorite creator. I will now binge all of your videos.
This is why I prefer to make my own food. It’s a great hobby and you learn a few things as well.
Me too and so does my family
I make my own Kombucha which is very tasty and probiotic. One week per batch
Any tips on what to buy at Walmart I'm gonna get diabetes if I keep eating fast food
The footage of the slurries at 5:30 is sooooo unappetizing, and calling them 'pre-digested' is just the perfect processed cherry on top. I personally have experienced now what it is like to eat unprocessed food 90% of the time to the point that when i eat junk now it makes me feel physically bad, but i still crave it if i see it in the supermarket, it's insane how addictive they are, so video is giving me motivation to further clean up my diet
This is an incredible video and I appreciate all the time you took to make it 💕
Your editing is on point, just like the previous junk food video you made, great content! It’s depressing to see how horrible junk food really is, but at least we know that eating healthy will improve our life not only physically but also mentally.
The McFlurry was really a McSlurry all along ☠️.
Thank you for another great video, Kiana!
lolol i've been chuckling to myself over mcslurry 😂❤
Well, we all sometimes treat ourself with this kind of stuff, especially if you are with friends, yes its not healthy but you must enjoy your life, not watch on every step you take. To find a balance, and never make it your daily habit, only special occasion thing, like drinking wine or champagne.
@@KianaDocherty hey, can you suggest foods or companies that are not ultra processed or filled with chemicals etc.? please tell us, it is a major problem in India also please cover this topic too.
@@Rhythm412you just have to read the labels and see what's in it. And If it has no label (like fresh vegetables) then it's not processed
@@jessicab6723 ok. Thank You for clarifying!👍
Back then, people only blamed fats for obesity so they ate excessive sugar instead. My generation blamed the lack of fiber so we ate ultraprocessed "healthy" food. I am hoping future generations finally solve this problem.
Just eat the food we have been doing for millions of years; quality meat, fruits, vegetables, fish. Humans have been healthy for millions of years on these foods, the main challenge was getting enough of them; not the food being bad. Anyone claiming meat, fruit, fish or vegetables are bad for you is just promoting their political agenda.
@@abcdef.fedcba In developing countries like mine, it is very hard to find quality produce because of pesticide misuse. It is also hard to find fish or meat. So lower income people are forced to eat unhealthy processed food unfortunately.
@@abcdef.fedcbai agree! There is a reason for example that the Mediterranean diet is actually really healthy, despite the fact that it contains olive oil, meat, butter and wine - it’s all able to be processed properly by our body! Also your brain actually can understand them
While at no point does the simple suggestion of eat less and move more seem to catch on. And I include myself in that. :)
This!!! I went to three different grocery stores looking for chicken tenders where the ingredients weren’t a random list of chemicals and slurries and there was of course only one brand who sold actual chicken chicken tenders
I love this video! I’m saving lots of videos for my children to watch and I’m totally saving this one! This gives out great into, but also simple enough that my elementary children totally understand!
I changed my diet from mostly ultra processed foods/takeout to mostly organic home cooked foods about 7 months ago and it’s been so worth it. Went from 185lbs to 130lbs, my periods are regular for the first time in my life (I have pcos) and even my depression became more manageable than before. It’s really crazy to me how much the foods we chose to eat affect our lives
We (my boyfriend and I) went to eating mostly whole foods a while back, and boy, has it made a difference in our health. So much less inflammation, our appetites aren't constantly gnawing at us, our skin is clearing up, etc etc. And we're saving so much money on food. Buying whole foods and making them into meals is much less expensive than buying processed stuff.. especially because we don't need to eat as much. We still buy/eat some processed stuff, though.. and this video is a good motivator for trying to be rid of those items..
No doubt. Most people don’t realise that when you eat ultraprocessed food, some of it is alien to your digestion and is therefore treated as if it you got an infection. So your immune system is on high alert all the time and is exhausted. Guess why obese were/are more likely to die from Covid-19.
Thank you so much for educating me, this is very helpful!
in europe we also have these foods, but way less intense processed with at least less of all the random additives, this is also due to the way more strickt guidelines in europe. Honestly find the difference with the state of food in the us shocking. We always have affordable options of fresh non processed foods here
You also have more demand for fresh genuine foods there, and, frankly, I wonder why you need a lot of those regulations, because they are easier to enact when they are not needed.
Yeah we have a higher demand, but that is also because it is normalized here. In the US the highly processed food is normalized. And it is easier for sure. But due to the regulations we don't get this overly processed food from the cheap slurries with random ingridients which is most cost effective for the ones making it and profiting of it. But it's not good for the people buying and eating it, often without knowing how terrible it actually is. And food savety is also a big part of it, due to the regulation the standards in the EU are higher, without we would probably be in a comparable mess with these processed foods as a normal way of eating. I'm very thankful (and I'm very sure a lot of Europeans are too) for all those regulations for the savety and health of the consumers, because that is the core reason for those regulations 😄
@@mirjamout9744 I am more annoyed that some people give government regulation all the credit for when a culture is relatively healthy, and when a culture is not so healthy, it is always some evil corporate conspiracy. In Britain and America, the regulations don't work, precisely because the culture incentivises companies to skirt round the regulations by replacing various fats and sugars with ostensibly healthier ersatz fats and sugars.
Europeans must always remember that in America, world-class food is generally just for urban intellectuals, who look down on the regular people.
Im so glad I live in the Netherlands as its so much better than America. There are much more rules to the food, but even with all the rules its still bad here. 50% are obese, its shocking really
I like that the fresh fruit juice is the same price as soda. Still tons of ultra processed snacks though.
I read the Omnivore's Dilemma over winter break and have become quite interested in our broken food system, but the pre-digestion never occurred to me. What a simple but diabolical root of the issues. I try to seek out single ingredients but do treat myself to junk food occasionally (probably too much) but this video is inspiring me to seek out ingredients in the first 3 processing groups as much as possible. Thank you for such a well made video!
Technicallly, cooking and fermentation is also a form a pre-digestion, not bad thought.
Knowledge is such a beautiful thing; thanks for this kind of info🙏🏼
Its seriously not hard to stay away from fast food, chips, cereals, etc.
Im not the healthiest person, but simply not buying certain things puts one ahead of alot of the population.
A lot of people have eating disorders caused by habits they were raised with. As well as it being more expensive to eat healthy. It's not hard for YOU but don't say it's not hard.
It’s not, if it was that easy, there wouldn’t be so many people who struggle so hard with this. These foods are meant to be addictive, and if you grow up with them, it’s extremely hard to stop eating them for good. I don’t even eat much of these foods, but is it really that hard to show some compassion for people who have a harder time than you?
they are addictive and shops put them on display in an enticing manner + all the advertisment.
That being said, just not buying them does it for me too. When it's becoming something like a rare treat instead of a daily snack, you're on a good way. In industrialized countries at least we have an overabundance of foods, chosing is not the problem, price isn't either, it's what you chose. Eating out at say McDonald's by the way is always more expensive than a simple and somewhat healthy homemade meal.
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It is hard in cases where kids or teens live with their family and their family is constantly buying their favorite unhealthy foods
Gotta give something for making this video Kiana.
I was not aware that it was this bad, I knew that these "foods" we're processed but being processed into to their molecular parts?!
This video is for sure going to make me avoid the snacks shelves like the plague when I go buy food in the future.
she gotta see this
Thank you very much! I actually didn’t realize what “ultra” processed meant until the molecular parts thing either lol. 😳🤯
@@KianaDocherty wow you saw this
@@KianaDochertywhen i first seen this kind of video few years ago, next day i went to store like Lidl, i really couldnt decide what to take for lunch, every time i read label it looked like i was holding poison, i was lost, 15min passed and i still dont know what to take for lunch.
Great video! Omg I learned so much. Thanks for opening my eyes and uncovering the rabbit hole I'm about to go down 😂❤
This is really an awesome video. Some of this I knew but to see it presented in such a comprehensive manner really makes it hit home. What are we doing to ourselves?
now i understand why my child health & nutrition class emphasized above all, giving children minimally processed foods. love the educational style content 💚🌱
One thing I want to add to this conversation is that when the focus of 'avoiding certain foods' becomes a priority when you have no basics down such as how much you eat, it doesn't matter whether or not you avoid those 'certain foods'. That is precisely the reason most people are overweight, have low energy and generally don't feel good about themselves around. There is a considerable amount of discipline needed to weigh and track every little thing you eat to get a picture of putting yourself in the hole you're in. No one likes it because it's a full-time job and you have to be held accountable without anyone telling you to fix it. If you want real change, start there.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Getting an overall understanding in how much nutrients, macros like protein, calories your food per portion has, has helped me eating foods in a more sustainable way. Also finding out how big your individual portion should be is also very important. I’m still not good at eyehing food, that’s why I always measure how much my portion dried pasta weighs, that way I can also ensure not cooking too much food and wasting it later. Oil too. But for whole foods like veggies, tofu fruits and such I don’t do that, as I’ve found the portion for these are easier to find also it’s good to overall eat more of them.
wow hats off to you for this video. keep up the content girl.
I love your effort so much here! Thank you so much!!!!
After I started watching your content, I went gluten-free, stopped eating processed food, drugstore food, fast food, dairy, easily. I’ve never felt better. Thank you for educating everyone and for your enjoyable, mesmerizing, and easy to understand content.
Why is dairy so bad?
Unless you have Celiac or gluten intolerance, eating gluten free is stupid and not at all worth the hassle
Signed, someone with Celiac
@@garfield5647It's fine unless you're lactose intolerant
@@garfield5647 It can be considered bad because, it's breast milk designed to nurture calves and is not naturally produced for human consumption. A decent amount of the population have a dairy allergy or intolerance, as it's not something that was designed for people to drink or eat. There are other sources of calcium available but people have been conditioned to think animal milk is the only way to get it, by the dairy industry to maximise profits. Nevermind the treatment of cows and what has to be done to obtain the milk.
As a (mostly whole foods )vegan, I really appreciate this video. 🙏 It reminds me why its SO important to invest time/money into qualify food vs. convenience.
You’ll eat meat again.
Perhaps they will. But they’re vegan right now.
@@PNW_Sportbike_Life You really don't know that; it's best not to assume or predict.
Whole food plant-based diet have reduced and reversed many illnesses.
There's many testimonials out there. 🙏
@@COSMIXAsmoking cured my familys cancer i cant attest to that
Just saw your video and it answèed cirtain questions i needed answering that mainstream science could not answer. Well done! Just subscribed
This video was SO well done!!!
insane how you say these foods at the grocery store is made for us not to feel satiated & ive been feeling this exact sentiment for a while. started cooking more and buying local!
It’s completely true. They mess with your digestion and you won’t know when you had enough. Worse is that you will be hungry soon even if you had too much of that junk food. That’s why people have snacks
Look at the nutrition labels, most food doesn't have enough nutrients to keep us alive. They are starving us, addicting us, making us sick. Food industry and medical industry work together to make us and keep us sick for profit.
This is one of the main reasons I periphery shop at grocery stores and avoid stores where I cant. Go to the veg, then meat and dairy, pop into the applicable aisles for my rice/oatmeal and my coffee. Maybe the baking aisle if I need flour or sugar. Every other aisle and section is filled with garbage and it's hard to avoid otherwise.
Great content. Well spoken, delivered, and researched. You did a great job on this one.
I could listen to her all day. Great videos.🎉
I’m so lucky to grow up in a family where junk food and sugary food wasn’t the norm. Ofc we had some as kids, but it was in reasonable amounts and, over time, I’ve basically quelled any desire to snack on junk food or ultra processed foods overall. I’ve found that replacing them with freshly baked veggies is an absolute wonder for staving off any cravings, and makes me desire the taste of vegetables all the more. I hope everyone’s doing well, and are on their way to improving their nutritional health!!
Love the video! FWIW, just wanted to point out that big food isn't the only entity creating pre-digested food -- We do it at home when we make things like smoothies, or juice, pureed soups and applesauce. Chewing food with our teeth is part of the digestion process, after all! When we make things like smoothies at home, we're letting the blender do some of the pre-digestion for us. So not all pre-digestion is bad... it's just when you take it too far.
Thank you!
I wanna thank you for this video because before I watched this I was still eating processed food and justified it by saying "I can fit this into my calories" but more often than not the junk food makes you hungrier and crave more. Im focusing on the quality and portions of food rather than prioritizing the calories like I used to and theres a huge difference because Im not tired and craving food all the time.
Very informative video. I really enjoyed watching, thank you!
13:30 "they ate the same amount of calories and yet the ultraprocessed food group were still eating more calories"
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This
They didn’t actually eat the same amount of calories, the ultra processed group chose to eat more, she worded it wrong
It's because they were both given the same amount of calories in the beginning for the experiment. Only the ultra processed group chose to eat more since they were still hungry.
Is true, every time I try to stop or quit it feels like withdraw, it sounds dumb, many of my friends laugh at me when I tell em that am addicted to junk food and sugar, but this is definitely worst than drugs and many like me start at a young age, you get addicted to this stuff and quitting is almost impossible.
This only leads to a life full of awful diseases and a young dead.
I am now stopping myself, but I can't completely, I get anxious, hyper active, I have bad temper and over all feel like💩
So for now I just try to consume once a month instead of every day.
It's really hard especially when it is so normalized and basically everywhere.
But this needs to stop.
You are not alone. I felt the same when I changed my diet.
I got 'carvings' for junk food.
It took months to go away.
All these foods started off as treats, not as a diet.
You got this keep at it, your future self will thank you I’m sure
@@jayrun4341 oww how nice thank you so much!
Thank you for the incredible work!
Thank you, Lily Lou!