Sanjay Gupta/ CNN now shilling for petroleum based food dyes because Trump wants to ban them
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Its easy to eat clean, the problem is time and cost, because in order to do so you have to make everything from scratch, all the way down to things like mayonnaise (so as to avoid vegetable oils, which are in all store bought mayo) and mustard (again, vegetable oils), which both costs more and takes more time than most people are willing to commit to.
Not just making, but preparing. Plastic leeches into food, particularly at higher temperatures. I remember when mayo and peanut butter and so many other things came in glass jars. And pasteurization (which lets you get away with lots of unsanitary conditions) is basically heating your product while it's in the container.
Go far enough back, and you had cans of nuts with a paper insert to keep them from touching the metal.
Back then, of course, people who manufactured food understood that they were serving their neighbors, their countrymen, their people, and valued wholesomeness, making the best quality of a product they could, instead of extracting the most money they could out of slop.
I'd say eating clean isn't JUST the issue, getting these things out of the food chain and production is the bigger thing as a lot of these things are covering for practices that are draining the nutrients from the land than a more sustainable model.
Chosen foods has an avocado mayo that’s like 4-5 ingredients, no other oils, it’s ~9 bucks a container though. Mustard you can find relatively easily with minimal ingredients and is vastly easier to make than mayonnaise. There’s a few chip brands that are three ingredients with only avocado oil as well for decent snacks. When i did keto for a year I got pretty good at roasting my own almond/ nut flavor mixes which is an easy snack too. Hummus and baba ganoush are pretty easy to make with a food processor, toum is tricky like mayonnaise but amazing.
Can you even make mayonnaise without vegetable oil? My wife sometimes makes mayonnaise in house but it's mostly sunflower oil.
Yes, with olive oil or avocado oil. I can't vouch for the taste, though, never made any myself.
--edit-- On looking it up, mayo was originally made with olive oil, before the widespread adoption of vegetable oil.
olive oil will result in an extremely bitter and practically inedible mayo, at least the type you usually buy when buying "olive oil" at the shop.
i can attest to this and also attest to the pain of having to throw that much mayo and used olive oil away...
You can easily swap out avocado oil or olive, most stores use soybean or sunflower oil anymore
Pissed me off when I bought mayo 'made with olive oil' and only bothered to read the ingredients after I got home. Yeah, it has some olive oil in it. Still mostly soybean oil.
That’s the gimmick. To be fair the “with” brands were still selling at 4 bucks a container