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Bread is very processed. You take a wheat grain, remove the hull, and maybe the bran and germ, grind it into powder, mix with water, yeast, salt, and some sweetener (probably itself refined), and then you pound and roll that a few times and then cook it. That's a lot of processing.
Cheese is also very processed. It doesn't come out of the cow that way.
OK, so first you take corn. Remove the kernels from the cob, then soak it in alkali water. Then wash it, remove the hull, grind it, Mix with water to make dough. Make the dough into balls, flatten, and cook on a hot flat surface. Just because a Latin American peasant can do it the way she learned from her abuela who learned from hers all the way the back to when it wasn't abuela but na’chin doesn't mean it isn't processing.
Frying it again is also processing. Avocado oil is also processed, though fairly minimally by pressing it out of avocados.
The difference between traditional forms of processing and the modern is that the modern kind is hyper optimized by capitalism, through vast amounts of capital and chemical engineering, for addictiveness and thence profitability. Healthiness could also be optimized for, but unfortunately it’s opaque to most consumers and doesn’t function as a schelling point in any case.
While it is true that Communism in general causes weight loss, there is nothing about capitalism that makes processing worse for you. It's just that capitalism tends to make more food available to most.
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Sounds like I'm doomed.
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