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.

... labelled as ...

Diets are healthy or otherwise; foodstuffs are nutritious or otherwise.

OP, I'm with you on the prepared fruit:

"sought refuge at a stand displaying cut-up fruits and vegetables; it felt good to see something natural, something instantly recognisable as food. But why did the fruit have dates, several weeks past, beside them? A salesman for Agricoat told me that they had been dipped in one of its solutions, NatureSeal, which, because it contains citric acid along with other unnamed ingredients, adds 21 days to their shelf life. Treated in this way, carrots don’t develop that telltale white that makes them look old, cut apples don’t turn brown, pears don’t become translucent, melons don’t ooze and kiwis don’t collapse into a jellied mush; a dip in NatureSeal leaves salads “appearing fresh and natural”.

For the salesman, this preparation was a technical triumph, a boon to caterers who would otherwise waste unsold food. There was a further benefit: NatureSeal is classed as a processing aid, not an ingredient, so there’s no need to declare it on the label, no obligation to tell consumers that their “fresh” fruit salad is weeks old."

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/21/a-feast-of-engineering-whats-really-in-your-food

Oh, OP - so you didn't like the way your original sushi thread went - and hid that and started another one.

you are being unhealthy with this sushi obsession

Thanks fine, I've seen other studies where they say the "fresh fruit" has very little nutritional value as its been degrading rapidly for weeks.

I started one thread about the environment and another about health. Two different topics to keep the conversation clearer, I don't see why people have to be so country about it.

But their not about different things sazzas we all know who and what your referring to!

You clearly have a problem with your colleuge!

Certianly his health really is none of your business and none of ours!

They are very clearly different things.

This is about what people perceive as healthy. Said guy doesn't claim his lunch is healthy so its purely about the people hear that called this factory food healthy.

People here do make up an agenda.

Who cares really? Eat food, avoid too much much of the obvious crap. If you're within a normal health range ,cardiovascular and musculoskeletal systems are fine and you're not getting loads of infections then you're healthy enough, whether your apple is whole or cut up in little slices in a plastic bag.
Diet is only one factor in good health anyway, and humans don't need to eat an optimum diet to be healthy.

A lot of retailers label their food as healthy why we may not consider it to be so. Lots of people do not really think about what they eat, just reading the label and believing the claims. Most people would also see fruit, fish, avocado and rice and would assume it was healthy. The food industry makes a fortune out of this kind of food, and people like your colleague fall for it, believing they are doing the right thing. I think you should concentrate your bile on the retailers.
Also I think that sushi is pretty good for you, there aren't many foods you can buy in a supermarket that contain nori, which is a fabulous source of iodine.

There's no bile.

These packaged fruit are not labeled as healthy, people just assume it is. Same with sushi. Same with sugar free or low fat. I think the issue is with people.

You are talking about one particular thing though Sushi! Which we know belongs to your colleague!

It honestly is none of your business!

No it's not labelled as healthy, many people presume it is, just as you presume food from your veg box is "green" and doesn't have a cost to the environment!
People are allowed to eat what they like think what they like.
You don't think sushi is healthy you think there's a lot of packaging on convince foods. Other people will wonder why you can't see that there's cost to the enviromrnt of farming to produce your veg box, and maybe think what you have for lunch isn't healthy!

Side note on Sushi. It's considered very fattening by the Japanese. Just a few pieces is actually a full portion of rice. Most people eating sushi end up taking about 4-6 portions of rice in one meal. That plus the sugary vinegar. It's not a 'health' food in Japan.

Wow, this colleague is really boiling your piss.

Cherry, rice sushi is very filling, how can one eat 4-5 portions

About 5-6 pieces max, no?

Sushi is junk. 90% highly processed carbs with lots of sugar and salt. Anyone Japanese would not look at a meal deal with sushi and think its healthy.

Most people in the UK have no idea what a healthy meal is.

BabyG, I guarantee the 5-6 pieces of sushi have more rice than you realise. Even tiny Japanese girls will eat far more than 3 plates od sushi.

I personally can happily eat 12+ pieces of Sushi in Japan, probably up to 20 of the piddley little ones the UK chains make. But I'm under no illusions about how many calories are in a feed of sushi.

It is not a diet food in Japan. It's traditionally a luxury, occasional food. (Now you can get cheap and fast sushi everywhere but proper sushi in Japan is for special occasions).

Cherry... Surely that can't be rice. A portion of cooked rice weighs about 150-180 grams (about 70-90g uncooked). A large supermarket sushi selection weighs roughly 190-220g. There can't possibly be 4-6 portions of rice in that, surely? Or am I missing something? Or are you saying people often eat 4-6 packs of sushi in a sitting?

Right not rice!

I'm talking about pieces of sushi. If you are eating negiri, there us a lot of rice in each finger.1 portion usually has 2 fingers. I guess if you stick with the little maki's you will eat less rice but in general, people fail to realise how much rice they are eating when they eat sushi! I also greatly disagree with the free miso refills over here. The amount of salt in miso! 1 bowl is more than enough health wise.

OP, judging by your other recent threads you have some quite strong views on some... Er... fascinating subjects.

A hobby, perhaps. Crotchet?