• Ashwo@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 hours ago

    There’s a bit more nuance to it than home cooked meals being healthy and eating out being unhealthy.

    There is a reason why restaurant chains are cheap. Their food comes from industrial factories.

    McDonalds isn’t going to have professional cooks make bread, fries, sauce… in each restaurant. That would be too expensive. They bring the frozen food in trucks. The employees do the last part. That’s how all corporate chains operate. Anything that comes from a factory is ultra-processed.

    Really rich people employ real cooks and butlers. Or they go to expensive restaurants.

    • Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Just because it’s frozen and made in a factory doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s unhealthy.

      Vitamin C is pretty much the only nutrient that gets degraded by freezing and storage. Usually the problem is that the nutrients weren’t in there to begin with.

      Having a look at the ingredients is really worth it. Of course that is a lot more difficult in a restaurant compared to a grocery store. Thanks to regulations.