I got tagged in a video talking about why bread is unhealthy.

Their argument: "if you are buying highly processed bread just because it's cheap".

I find this interesting, because if you read the comments it is clear that a lot of people are annoyed with these kinds of videos. You can see many similar people making similar videos, like Food Babe, Flavcity, CarnivoreMD (Paul Saladino) and Eddie Abbew.

Why are people getting annoyed? One reason is because they often recommend things that are not realistic.

Let’s use bread as an example. If a cheap bread is “full of additives” (which ones specifically and what their health risks are is a separate, bigger question) what is the solution?

Are you all going to start baking your fresh bread from scratch? That’s not going to happen, for most people, let’s be honest.

Are you only allowed to buy expensive bread? That’s not going to happen either.

When I disagree with these kinds of grocery store videos, a lot of people think I am pretending food quality doesn’t matter, which is nonsense. There are many reasons some foods are more or less nutritious than others.

But, I don’t think this trend of grocery store videos is actually very helpful.

More often than not, they are not teaching you anything detailed and useful about food additives, or how to make better food choices (which I am totally fine with, obviously).

They are often just vaguely point at labels, mention some scary sounding words and telling you to buy something more expensive.

Personally, I am not sure they are very helpful. What do you think?

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Reference: The Multiple Ingredients Effect: The More Diverse (Un)Healthy Ingredients, the More (Un)Healthy the Food