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Mark Twain once said “The secret to success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside”
Lately I’ve seen the term “real food” floating around the internet and social media. I’ve heard comments stating, “no food served in restaurants is real food”, along with “anything processed isn’t real food”.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines food as “a material consisting essentially of protein, carbohydrate, and fat used in the body of an organism to sustain growth, repair, and vital processes and to furnish energy; also : such food together with supplementary substances (as minerals, vitamins, and condiments)”
Just because something is processed doesn’t make it any less real because everything at some point was processed. We don’t put live animals on our plates; they are harvested and processed into retail cuts before we consume them. We don’t walk out into the garden and eat from the plant (or at least we shouldn’t), we pick the produce (or someone does) and wash it before eating. These are all forms of processing.
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