/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I am so sick of these shitty food trends.

Examples:

>Coconut oil
Opposite macros of olive oil. High in saturated fat (solid at room temp) and low in unsaturated fat. Perceived as healthy by hippies and idiot stay at home moms.

>Kale
Tasteless and tough as shit. No healthier than any other leafy green and toxic in high amounts.

>Stevia
Much less studied than aspartame. No health benefits, not proven to be any safer than aspartame which is made of two amino acids aspartic acid and phenylalanine (building blocks of protein that all of our bodies use regularly).

>Against MSG
Another animo acid, a glutamine ion, bonded to a sodium ion. Very rarely is anyone allergic to it contrary to what they commonly report. Used all the time in our bodies and found in high amounts in many other common foods. Parm cheese, tomatoes, anchovies, fish sauce, seaweed etc contain high amounts of MSG.

>Cane sugar better for you than High fructose corn syrup.
All sugars break down into the same constituents. There is no difference in health value in HFCS compared to cane sugar. There may be a slight difference in taste, which is a positive but comes at a higher price. The real downside of HFCS is that it is dirt cheap and is added to many cheap processed foods in high amounts unnecessarily.

Discuss and let me know if you disagree hippies.

>good to eat more than 3 times a day
>meat is unhealthy
>eggs are bad for you

please add more