Erin Allman-Updike
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Okay.
So this is a potentially beneficial change.
However, it does kind of merit a bit more nuance than what the guidelines are giving it.
Yeah.
Okay.
We have to because an in-depth look on what processed foods or they call them highly processed foods.
And that's not a thing that exists.
Like it's not a category of processing.
There is a classification system called the NOVA classification system that lists minimally processed and ultra processed foods.
But highly processed is not technically a term.
Now, is that semantics?
A little bit.
But the problem is that to really, like, get at the idea of food processing, you have to, like, what is it that we're trying to get at here, right?
Right.
Exactly.
They're oversimplifications on both ends of the spectrum, essentially.
No one thinks that Cheetos are a health food.
Right.
You know, like.
Not to name names, but.