As an aside, we really shouldn’t be eating food created in a lab. We’ve evolved as a species over hundreds of thousands of years to eat real food and we keep trying and failing to outsmart evolution. Trans fats, artificial sweeteners, processed food, and so on.

[–] purrtastic@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Milk is an end product. Precise fermentation is a better technology to produce it than cows.

[–] pluckytree@lemmy.nz 0 points 6 months ago

Better how? Certainly not more nutritious but having some new feature that adds convenience or uniformity. Processing always has side effects, usually discovered decades later. Trans fats, artificial sweeteners, refined grains, the list goes on.

[–] hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What are your thoughts on iodized salt, niacin flour and iron fortified cereals?

[–] pluckytree@lemmy.nz 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

With a -8 vote, I’m not going to comment on eating real food ever again here. :)

If you genuinely care and aren’t just baiting me, thinking you’ve entrapped me in an illogical box, here goes. I don’t have a problem fortifying cereal or flour, but they are both moderately to highly processed, so it’s generally better to eat less processed food. Salt is minimally processed and is an essential mineral, as is iodine. If you eat a good diet, you don’t need extra iodine, but I don’t think it’s harmful to add it. You can choose uniodised salt if you feel you don’t want extra iodine. Adding these things doesn’t make them more processed, it just makes them the same but with additives. :) Processing means you are taking a real food and removing nutrition from it in exchange for getting something in return like better shelf life or faster cooking times or some other convenience.