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Nova’s food classification system has caused unnecessary disturbance about “super treatment” foods. It has been developed by the Center for Epidemiology in Health and Nutrition, the Public Health School at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and information technology collect foods through the level of treatment and recommending to avoid “super treatment foods” such as sweets and soda. All breakfast pills are collected in the highly treated category. This discussion was prompted among nutritionists.
Courtney PelitraRD nutritionist (RD), believes that the Nova scale is interpreted. “Treatment simply refers to all physical, biological and chemical methods used during the food processing process, including the use of additives. It was never supposed to determine the” food health “system as it became common on social media channels.”
According to RD Kelly Toups LeblancOldway’s vice president, not all highly treated foods. “Some highly treated foods, such as whole grain breakfast, contain important food groups in the nutritional guidelines of Americans. Other treated foods, such as desserts and soft drinks, no.”
It faces a problem with the way the Nova menu is classified, especially whole grain.
For example, refined grains such as multi-purpose flour, descending corn points, and white rice, which have been treated to remove a healthy bran and germ, are in one way or another to treat the minimum, and place it in the same category as fresh broccoli-while packing. 100 % grain bread Complete and complete breakfast are considered super treatment. ”
The fact is that whole grain pills can be an important part of nutritional assistance programs, providing valuable nutrition for the vulnerable population. “In the study of 2023 From the US Department of Agriculture, government scientists designed a seven -day feeding diet, 2000 calories in which 91 % of calories of foods that have been treated with super.
