Essay On Food Processing

Introduction:

Food processing is the transformation of cooked ingredients, by physical or chemical means into food, or of food into other forms. The definition of a processed food can vary, but processed food usually refers to foods that are packaged in boxes, cans, bags, etc. These processed foods need to be processed to an extreme extent to be edible and aren’t usually found as is in nature. For this study determining to mental effect of processed food on the human brain as well as the human body is the main goal. According to www.authoritynutrition.com processed foods are often high in unhealthy fats. The processed foods contain cheap fats, refined seed and vegetable oils like soybean oil that are hydrogenated, which makes them turn into

Processed Foods Are Often High in Trans Fats or Processed Vegetable Oils. The fact throughout each of the 9 facts of how unhealthy processed foods are is the addiction leading to the emotional state being affected by what is put into the food. There are several flavor enhancers, chemicals, and hormones inserted into the foods and animals that we eat in the present such as monosodium glutamate and genetically modified organisms that are affecting the mind day by day. Those hormones are triggering the brain to think a certain way after eating a significant amount of food especially if it was all processed. My topic is solely based on the Health and Food Industry. I am certainly focused on making people aware of what the food industry as well as the government and what they allow people to eat and drink regardless of how toxic it is for the body. “How junk food wrecks your body” by Alexandra Sifferlin is discussing how junk food is totally bad for your body and what it does to your body overtime. It’s not a shocking realization that junk food is low in healthy nutrients and high in sugar and sodium. Animal research was conducted that I don’t support but did a study on rats with junk food. The experimental physiology study journal suggested that a diet with mainly junk food harms the kidneys as it would if you had type 2 diabetes. In the study the rats were given a junk food diet of marshmallows. Biscuits, cheese, and chocolate bars for eight weeks. The study was extremely small and used rats rather than people, so the results can't be mainly about humans or harm the humans. Dr. David Katz says “Animal studies provide insights about potential effects in people, but they rarely provide definitive answers”. Dr. David Katz was not involved in the