How Clean is a Clean Calorie?

Nutrition
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[quote]Spartiates wrote:
Icarus, your first statement: does that mean you eat paleo basically? Since beans, rice, grains, corn and the like are inedible if unprocessed (the form that they grew in)?

I think I typically fall into the same category as you do. Other than the tortilla, the burrito is more or less whole foods… but I’m sure they are the cheapest, thin shelled, mass bought eggs one can get, and the “cheese” might be a little suspect… the pork probably didn’t lead a very healthy life… but they are traceable. There are no “nuggets” so to speak.

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I don’t eat paleo, no. What I meant was, when I prepare the food (cook, chop, marinate, etc.) I try to get it in the most basic form. I can make chicken nuggets, but I know what goes into them. If you just buy and eat a chicken nugget, you are (most likely) eating bone fragments, skin, cartilage and meat along with whatever the breading is made out of (I won’t even attempt that one) and whatever cooked oil was used to at least get it all to stay together. If I were to make them, I would start with a chicken breast and figure out the best way to make the breading without totally fucking up the macros to the point it just becomes a crap food. I highly doubt I would ever try to make a nugget, so that’s why I don’t elaborate on how to do it.

Whole foods are (99%) clean. Anything that comes in a box, bag or container most likely has had something done to it to make it ‘unclean’ from a calorie standpoint. Even the above chicken breast can be ‘unclean’ if it was processed in anyway. Most bagged chicken breasts have solutions slopped all over them before they are frozen. I eat them because I think its a minor point and it beats eating a Big Mac to get my macros in.

I agree about the burrito. Everything inside of it is pretty good. But you know they use over processed, fattier parts of the chicken and they have to use poorer quality rice, beans, veggies, etc. to be able to make more money. Just have to take this kind of thing into consideration when jammin it down your throat. Not optimal, but it will work.

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[quote] Brook wrote:
Icarus wrote:
Chicken’s don’t have nuggets.

Wait… what?[/quote]

Some people think that eating chicken nuggets is ‘healthy’ (or in this case clean) because it’s chicken. It was just to illustrate my point that eating foods that grew into the form you prepare/eat them. I have never seen a chicken with a nugget. I have seen them with breasts, thighs, wings, etc. Sometimes it clicks, sometimes it doesn’t. LOL.

It’s comprable to the asshats that believe eating bread that says “made with whole grains” on it is as healthy as eating a whole grain; quinoa, oats, barley, etc. Technically, the grain used to make white Wonder bread was whole at one point. The Wonder bread grain is a lot more processed than the grains in “whole grain bread” but they are both processed. To me, that is an ‘unclean’ food. Differing levels of clean of course, but neither is whole.