Is it best not to eat processed foods when you’re on a diet?

[Anonymous]

Like eggplant dip, falafel balls and hummus and vine leaves?

[Levin]

in my opinion, try to eat real foods. Most foods are processed to some degree. Try and eat few ingredients and natural as possible.

Bear in mind, complex carbs/vegetables, beans/legums have fibre so fill you up.

Fat, dairy and protein, refined carbs are full of calories and do not fill you up to the same degree.

So I recommend a whole foods lowish fat plant based diet. With some flexibility for your own dietary needs of course. I still eat some fish.

[NamerOfStars]

Unless you're trying to lose weight via e. coli, you very much WANT processed food- at least food that's undergone the process known as "washing", which UN-processed food by definition hasn't.

Learn just what it is that's being objected to; "processed food" is just a label applied to "stuff I don't like".

[rosemilk]

if you want to lose weight, the only thing that matters is calories in/calories out. you can eat freaking bananas all day, as long as you are in a calorie deficient lol

so I don't know what kind of diet you are referring to. if you are on a diet to get healthy, then yeah that's probably not a good idea to eat processed foods

[Anonymous]

best diet is to cut everything that raises insulin , u won't even crave anything sugary after 1 week , and yes that includes processed food and bad oils

[LiamS95]

It's always best to eat whole natural foods that are not processed or even worse are over processed. Example eat home cooked oatmeal not boxed over processed cereals with a ton of sugar and preservatives added.

[NewgodOmega]

Its best not to eat processed food ever
The more natural the food is the better infact even use of refrigators is not a totally good thing.

[jahaims]

Processed just means it isn't in its original form. So apple slices count as processed. How it is processed is what matters.

[laly520]

best to avoid it even if not on a diet