Frankenfoods — The Hidden Dangers of Ultra-Processed Foods and Why Labels Matter
00:00:00.000 | Components of the food were taken out
00:00:04.120 | through industrial and scientific capabilities,
00:00:06.960 | basically.
00:00:07.480 | So you're extracting a piece of the whole food
00:00:10.720 | and then taking these individual pieces of whole foods
00:00:13.680 | that really weren't meant to exist in isolation together
00:00:16.760 | and re-putting them together into what
00:00:18.920 | I would call a frankenfood.
00:00:20.320 | So something that never could exist.
00:00:22.280 | So it's not like it's cooked, or it's squished, or blended,
00:00:26.000 | and mixed with other whole foods to make something new.
00:00:28.720 | Basically, when you get to ultra-processed foods,
00:00:30.800 | it's when you've taken out individual constituent
00:00:33.240 | components of a whole food and then repackaged them together.
00:00:36.800 | So what you're going to see on labels--
00:00:38.600 | and fundamentally, this has come down to we all
00:00:40.040 | need to read all the labels on the food we're eating.
00:00:42.280 | Because if we think about the food as the bricks
00:00:44.640 | to re-3D print our bodies and also the instruction
00:00:46.840 | manuals for ourselves, we realize
00:00:48.320 | why we have to read labels.
00:00:49.400 | Because we want to know what impact we're going
00:00:51.960 | to have on our body of tomorrow.
00:00:54.200 | And that's why we read labels.
00:00:55.680 | 'cause it's like, this is who we're gonna be tomorrow.