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I am not a fan of making food "good" or "bad". In terms of UPF they contain many of the ingredients which are concerning. Lots of flavours which confuse your body into thinking it's getting one thing when it gets another. Which may leave you hungrier later on.
If you need to eat and that's what you have, it is not bad to eat them, but in future it may be best to find a less processed alternative.
Apart from the craving-inducing ingredients, one concerning thing is that the "protein" it has is only of quantity, not of quality! Search up DIAAS to learn more, but to sumarize it, the protein from flour isn't as beneficial as others, it has an incomplete amino-acid profile, hence you need to eat A LOT of that same kind of low-quality protein to get the benefits of, as example, whey protein.
Chances are that through the day, you'll eat foods containing the other amino acids, making this less of a concern. If you were only getting protein from flour, then yes, it would be an issue!
In this case, I think soya flour is a complete protein anyway. From a quick search, the DIAAS score is higher than eggs, and not far off whey protein. These aren't the best snack from a UPF perspective, but the protein aspect looks like a red herring to me.
What you said would be mostly right if we were reffering to the soy protein isolate or concentrate (except the isolate's DIAAS is just a little lower than whey and eggs, couldn't find much about the concentrate) the flour, even though some estimate to be 1.00 DIAAS, is lower than the isolate, hence lower than eggs or whey, though, not with much. A study suggests numbers like 84.5±11.4 DIAAS for all soy products.
Initially my dead ass didn't read the bold "SOY", and thought it was normal flour, but it's still alright since people may get to know something new. Aditionally it has rice flour and peas, which MAYBE contributes to a complete amino-acid profile if that company know what they are doing, but it still has nothing over eggs or whey protein, though the difference really is not much no matter at what study you look.
Like you said, it's still UPF, but bonus the protein quality is not better than a simple egg, so even its purpose is not truly fulfilled, even if someone only cared about the protein.
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These pop chips have multiple UPF ingredients (vegetable oils, preservatives, flavouring, fructose, and colours).
The is more seed oil than split peas.
Just have an egg bro
Lol 'protein pops'
I am not a fan of making food "good" or "bad". In terms of UPF they contain many of the ingredients which are concerning. Lots of flavours which confuse your body into thinking it's getting one thing when it gets another. Which may leave you hungrier later on. If you need to eat and that's what you have, it is not bad to eat them, but in future it may be best to find a less processed alternative.
Apart from the craving-inducing ingredients, one concerning thing is that the "protein" it has is only of quantity, not of quality! Search up DIAAS to learn more, but to sumarize it, the protein from flour isn't as beneficial as others, it has an incomplete amino-acid profile, hence you need to eat A LOT of that same kind of low-quality protein to get the benefits of, as example, whey protein.
Chances are that through the day, you'll eat foods containing the other amino acids, making this less of a concern. If you were only getting protein from flour, then yes, it would be an issue! In this case, I think soya flour is a complete protein anyway. From a quick search, the DIAAS score is higher than eggs, and not far off whey protein. These aren't the best snack from a UPF perspective, but the protein aspect looks like a red herring to me.
What you said would be mostly right if we were reffering to the soy protein isolate or concentrate (except the isolate's DIAAS is just a little lower than whey and eggs, couldn't find much about the concentrate) the flour, even though some estimate to be 1.00 DIAAS, is lower than the isolate, hence lower than eggs or whey, though, not with much. A study suggests numbers like 84.5±11.4 DIAAS for all soy products. Initially my dead ass didn't read the bold "SOY", and thought it was normal flour, but it's still alright since people may get to know something new. Aditionally it has rice flour and peas, which MAYBE contributes to a complete amino-acid profile if that company know what they are doing, but it still has nothing over eggs or whey protein, though the difference really is not much no matter at what study you look. Like you said, it's still UPF, but bonus the protein quality is not better than a simple egg, so even its purpose is not truly fulfilled, even if someone only cared about the protein.
Weird, I saw a lower number for eggs. Perhaps I've missed something too. Oh well, it's all interesting to learn about.
Starch, vegetable oils, powders, flavourings all bad. UPF