Well, I personally prefer to avoid things that are bagged like that (I read a book called "Not on the Label", and whilst I try not to preach to anyone about their diet, it certainly changed how I looked at food and how we treat the people who produce it for us...), but I wouldn't say that it was processed by being put into a bag. However, everyone's view of what constitutes "processed" is different, and YMMV to a great extent.
If you mistreat *any* food, or eat it when it isn't ready, or is in a state of advanced decomposition (all food, by it's very nature, is in *some* state of decomposition) it can make you poorly.
A mouldy carrot isn't going to be good for you, just by dint of it being a vegetable.
I object to the nanny-state telling me what I should and shouldn't eat, as I do have a functioning brain and enough nouse to figure out that chocolate 24/7 gives me headaches and I get more energy when I eat green stuff...
I would, however, point out that if you ever get the chance to experience industrial food-processing, then it is a very interesting and slightly worrying thing. Tim worked for years in a bread factory and then in a processed meat factory (processing raw product into sausages, burgers etc.) There's a very good reason why I buy that sort of thing in a butcher's where I can check what's gone into it, and actually see the machinery used to produce it.
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If you mistreat *any* food, or eat it when it isn't ready, or is in a state of advanced decomposition (all food, by it's very nature, is in *some* state of decomposition) it can make you poorly.
A mouldy carrot isn't going to be good for you, just by dint of it being a vegetable.
I object to the nanny-state telling me what I should and shouldn't eat, as I do have a functioning brain and enough nouse to figure out that chocolate 24/7 gives me headaches and I get more energy when I eat green stuff...
I would, however, point out that if you ever get the chance to experience industrial food-processing, then it is a very interesting and slightly worrying thing. Tim worked for years in a bread factory and then in a processed meat factory (processing raw product into sausages, burgers etc.) There's a very good reason why I buy that sort of thing in a butcher's where I can check what's gone into it, and actually see the machinery used to produce it.