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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1524" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/is-eating-natural-food-the-same-as-eating-whats-healthy" target="_blank"><strong>What are natural foods? - aeon</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>The glass of orange juice at the breakfast table tells a tale about what’s natural, what’s whole and what’s healthy for us </strong></p><p></p><p>What is a ‘natural’ food product? One common suggestion is that ‘natural’ things are not made of chemicals. But the whole biological world is chemicals! Another suggestion: natural products are not genetically modified (that is, a GMO). Alas, that won’t work either. While GMO designers do mix and match genes artificially, the <a href="https://aeon.co/essays/mother-nature-might-be-lovely-but-moral-she-is-not" target="_blank">bacteria</a> at work in you and your food do the same thing and have always done so. How about not made in a lab? No, the vitamin C from a lab is the same chemical as the vitamin C from an orange. </p><p></p><p>So it isn’t easy to say what a natural product comes to. Understandably, many commentators have thrown up their hands in despair. Even the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given up on enshrining a formal <a href="https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/LabelingNutrition/ucm456090.htm" target="_blank">definition</a> of ‘natural’. But giving up is an overreaction. Outside the clean world of mathematics, nearly all concepts are in want of clarification, and <em>natural</em> is a useful enough notion for us to attempt to clarify. In spite of its trendy appearance, the core idea behind ‘natural’ has been around at least since Aristotle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1524, member: 1"] [URL='https://aeon.co/essays/is-eating-natural-food-the-same-as-eating-whats-healthy'][B]What are natural foods? - aeon[/B][/URL] [B]The glass of orange juice at the breakfast table tells a tale about what’s natural, what’s whole and what’s healthy for us [/B] What is a ‘natural’ food product? One common suggestion is that ‘natural’ things are not made of chemicals. But the whole biological world is chemicals! Another suggestion: natural products are not genetically modified (that is, a GMO). Alas, that won’t work either. While GMO designers do mix and match genes artificially, the [URL='https://aeon.co/essays/mother-nature-might-be-lovely-but-moral-she-is-not']bacteria[/URL] at work in you and your food do the same thing and have always done so. How about not made in a lab? No, the vitamin C from a lab is the same chemical as the vitamin C from an orange. So it isn’t easy to say what a natural product comes to. Understandably, many commentators have thrown up their hands in despair. Even the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given up on enshrining a formal [URL='https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/LabelingNutrition/ucm456090.htm']definition[/URL] of ‘natural’. But giving up is an overreaction. Outside the clean world of mathematics, nearly all concepts are in want of clarification, and [I]natural[/I] is a useful enough notion for us to attempt to clarify. In spite of its trendy appearance, the core idea behind ‘natural’ has been around at least since Aristotle. [/QUOTE]
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