Processed Foods and Kidney Disease

🔴 Processed Foods

✅ Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms. Food processing includes many forms of processing foods, from grinding grain to make raw flour to home cooking to complex industrial methods used to make convenience foods.
A variety of different techniques are used to process food. Any food that's processed is usually frozen, canned, dried, baked, or pasteurized.

🔴 What's considered a processed food?

✅ According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), processed food is defined as any raw agricultural commodity that has been subject to washing, cleaning, milling, cutting, chopping, heating, pasteurizing, blanching, cooking, canning, freezing, drying, dehydrating, mixing, packaging or other procedures.

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🔴 Despite processed food's bad reputation, there are actually several items you can (and should) indulge in guilt-free.

✅ Yogurt
✅ Frozen Veggies
✅ Tomato Sauce
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✅ Sauerkraut
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✅ Chickpeas and canned Beans
✅ Oats, granola
✅ Veggie Burgers
✅ Unsweetened Almond Milk
✅ Organic Jelly
✅ Fortified Cereals
✅ Freeze-dried Fruit
✅ Pickles
✅ Dark Chocolate
✅ Ezekiel Bread
✅ Natural Peanut Butter
✅ String Cheese (mozzarella, cheddar, brie...)

🔴 Dangerous Processed Foods for your body, heart, kidneys... you MUST avoid

❌ Bacon
❌ Chocolate Bars
❌ Flavored nuts
❌ Microwave popcorn
✅ There’s nothing wrong with popcorn (as long as you go easy on the salt and butter) and there’s nothing wrong with microwaving food. What’s so bad about microwave popcorn then?
It’s in the bag. Perfluoroalkyls are just one class of chemical found in microwave popcorn bags. Some studies have linked perfluoroalkyls with health problems as diverse as impaired kidney function and poor semen quality.
❌ Margarine
❌ Ketchup
❌ Instant ramen

🔴 All things in moderation

✅ Processed foods aren’t a modern invention. They’ve been around since the first barrel of salt pork sailed across the Atlantic. They are convenient and give us access to foods that would otherwise perish in transit.
Enjoy them in moderation, and use common sense. Check the nutrition labels to avoid anything high in fats, sugars, and chemicals you can’t pronounce. Be sure to make fresh, simple ingredients the focus of your diet.

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