It would be different if you created some meal or item yourself, just by getting some puree forced into a certain shape and to keep it up. (Much like when you spice minced meat for meatballs ("Bouletten") and get it ready for roasting in the pan.) But, all that crap, that also goes through factories. It has a very different quality than that. Factories have the whole set of a chemistry lab available to them, which you don't have at home. And that's why that is pretty much nonsense to think that should be healthy. These days they can even create some certain sort of flavor by planting bacteria on a piece of wood! Doesn't have much to do then with the taste of some real piece of fruit, but it somehow tastes like that... That is the dimension that is available. So there is not much talking about "healthy" then... Not even mentioning the pack of energy that you need to sacrifice in order to create this product from something that naturally doesn't exist in this form that you push it into. (Addtionally, when talking about drinks made from rice, coconut or almond - if you have to put in vitamins artificially, which milk would contain naturally, just to make humans avoid developing a malnutrition, then what the heck is healthy about this? Only case where I'd think such stuff has its legitimation is for certain purposes, like when people have real problems to digest lactose, when they suffer from allergies or other metabolic problems which requires them to keep a special diet short of animal products. But this follows some medical purpose then and is like "special food" that exists in order to help a disease not getting worse.)
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But, all that crap, that also goes through factories. It has a very different quality than that. Factories have the whole set of a chemistry lab available to them, which you don't have at home.
And that's why that is pretty much nonsense to think that should be healthy.
These days they can even create some certain sort of flavor by planting bacteria on a piece of wood! Doesn't have much to do then with the taste of some real piece of fruit, but it somehow tastes like that... That is the dimension that is available.
So there is not much talking about "healthy" then...
Not even mentioning the pack of energy that you need to sacrifice in order to create this product from something that naturally doesn't exist in this form that you push it into.
(Addtionally, when talking about drinks made from rice, coconut or almond - if you have to put in vitamins artificially, which milk would contain naturally, just to make humans avoid developing a malnutrition, then what the heck is healthy about this?
Only case where I'd think such stuff has its legitimation is for certain purposes, like when people have real problems to digest lactose, when they suffer from allergies or other metabolic problems which requires them to keep a special diet short of animal products. But this follows some medical purpose then and is like "special food" that exists in order to help a disease not getting worse.)