“There are basically three reasons,” he said. “The number-one priority is to keep a food safe, the next is to transport it to areas that can’t cultivate their own food, and the third is to maintain the texture, flavor, and mineral and vitamin content in storage. For example, meat starts to spoil if we don’t immediately cool it, cook it, or salt it, which are all forms of processing. Vegetables and grains are often treated with pesticides, cleaned, cut, flash frozen, blanched, or canned to maintain their freshness. So if you think processed food is bad, well, then, tell me what you think would
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