To hate it when people label food "healthy"

[Sazzas]

Because it really isn't that simple that a food is either healthy or unhealthy. So many different factors to consider.

For instance many people claimed on another thread that factory made sushi, factory prepared fruit and a bottle of pop was "healthy".

The sushi contains white rice that has been sugared and salted with only a tiny amount of veg, but lots of Mayo in comparison. The fruit will have been made in a factory a week ago, dipped in chlorine and packaged with special gasses to prevent it from looking degraded but it will have lost lots of its nutritional content. A bottle of pop usually just contains a huge amount of your daily calories from sugar. So I wouldn't consider this meal either healthy or unhealthy. Probaby 95% unhealthy a d 5% healthy. Lots of sugar and processed carbs.

I was with you until fruit made in factory?

I think most of us, me included, have lost sight of what a normal, balanced diet is.

There is so much conflicting information are grains good or bad? Are carbs a diet essential or a diet no no? Butter or marg? Is dairy poisoning us or an essential source of calcium?

Store bought sushi isn't that bad, it will be a good source of EFA, though I don't think anyone could argue that pop is good.

Yes, people have some strange ideals.

Just eat normal natural food and you cannot go far wrong.

I did say prepared in a factory however.

Well sushi has some good points, but also some bad points calling it healthy isnt right IMO. If you had sushi for lunch every single day that wouldn't be a healthy diet. Lack of veg and very carb heavy with lots of sugar and salt.

You're beginning to sound a trifle obsessed.

I'm always quite pleased when I make a healthy choice. The other week we went out for cocktails and I had a bloody mary, which I was very proud of, and considered one of my five a day. If they'd stuck a stick of celery in it, I'd have counted it as two!

Healthy to me is anything natural i.e. plant based.

When does sushi have mayo in it?

Mayo in sushi? And the amount of rice / veg / fish depends a lot in which sushi you choose.

Prepared fruit is packaged in nitrogen. Not "special gases" - nitrogen is the main component of the air we breathe, but it doesn't react with fruit to discolour out like oxygen does so it's used to package cut fruit and veg.

The fruit will have been made in a factory a week ago
is what you actually put, Sazzas

So I read your other thread on this ..... OP I think you need to just let it go.

Surely if a pineapple is chopped up in a factory it's still a pineapple and therefore good for you, though. As opposed to being made into a smoothie or something where the fibre content is useless.

I think as long as food is in as natural a state as possible then it's probably alright.

I agree about the unnecessary labelling of good/bad but it's much worse when it's applied to stuff like diet bars, low fat processed versions of proper food.

So is mayonnaise a traditional ingredient in sushi, then?

You learn something new, every day

oh, I haven't seen another thread but if you meant that it's prepared a while ago, yes I guess it wouldn't be as healthy due to losing nutrients. Frozen veg is healthier for that reason apparently.

But if it's fresh(ish) fruit it's still good.

Now I want pineapple

You did say made in a factory which confused me for a number of reasons, having not read the thread in question.

I've never seen sushi with fruit in it, so assumed you were referring to some kind of fruit dessert, with heavily processed fruit bits in it.

However, that's not really the point of the thread. I don't think there's many meals you could eat repeatedly and claim to be healthy, you need a variety of food to fulfill your nutritional meals, so any lunch, repeated day in day out, would fail to be healthy.

Sushi once or twice would be healthy, in that you'd be getting your 2 servings of oily fish each week, particularly if you had fruit afterwards. Too much sushi would not be healthy, but then nor would too many salads and not enough protein.

The key is balance, rather than demonising certain foods because they were prepared in a factory or have white rice in them.

Variety is best. I think our ancestors ate about 100x the number of foods we did - mind you a lot of that might be insects we might not be too keen on today or every part of the big animal from kidneys, liver and all the rest....

Actually even that might not be true for all. The eskimoes were pretty healthy of loads of good healthy animal fat and meat and fish but then again they'd be eating brain, heart, liver, kidney etc. which are packed with good stuff (pity I don't like them). No liver on the menu tonight.

What's your healthy menu then sazzas?

Thank fuck i dont like sushi

Sushi is not amazingly healthy, but healthier than many pre packaged sandwiches. The sushi I buy is basically rice, salmon and mackerel. No mayonnaise. And yes, no veg.
Nobody would claim pop is healthy.

Are you still gabbing on about the bliddy sushi?

Are you still gabbing on about the bliddy sushi?

Where's that 'like' button when you need it!

I've also seen your other post. Have you been attacked by some sushi preciously?

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