Palm oil is a butter substitute. Every baked product at the grocery store that used to be made with butter is now made with palm oil, because it is cheaper. Palm oil is made up of long highly-saturated fatty acids that cause it to be solid at room temperature, giving it physical properties very similar to butter, making it suitable as a substitute. However saturated fatty acids are bad for your health. Butter is also saturated fat and is also somewhat bad, but palm oil is much worse because the varieties of fatty acids it contains are much different from animal fat fatty acids and the human body metabolizes them differently, so they have a much higher impact. Similar physical properties but worse health properties!
It is nearly impossible to find frozen baked goods that are still made with butter. This pie claims to be made with healthy ingredients, and specifically touts its butter content, but it conveniently omits mentioning palm oil entirely. Since palm oil appears first on the ingredients list before butter, that means there is more of it. Possibly almost the entire "butter-like" fraction of the pie consists of palm oil.
This pie alone contains 400% daily value saturated fat, which is terrible for long-term health. I love apple pies and I was planning to eat this pie as my sole food over the course of 2 days for my One-Meal-A-Day (OMAD), but I'm not willing to risk eating palm oil. Thanks for nothing for getting my hopes up, pie box!
- traditional wholesome German ingredients like palm oil
- palm oil - just the way grandma used to make at home
- contains memories of butter
I'm sure someone below will mention how palm oil is also bad for the environment and bad for the farmers and bad for the economy. I will only be answering questions about the film Rampart.
Honestly, I don't even trust food science anymore to tell me what is healthy or not. I've completely lost faith that they have any idea of what they're talking about. The industry keeps changing their mind and fucking us around. I'm sure in 10 years they'll be like, oh noo by the way we were completely wrong about saturated fat too.
I have a simple test. Is it highly processed? Unhealthy. My definition of "highly processed" being kind of arbitrary. Looking online, palm oil can be healthy but the stuff used commercially is unrecognisable from the initial product. I'm sure if you got a palm fruit and freshly squeezed it, you'd be eating something healthy. But whatever is in that apple pie I wouldn't trust it. What I was reading
I trust butter because you can make it yourself at home. I don't trust margarine. Just eat normal food.
Do you drink water? What about coffee or tea? All of those are highly processed (or at least they should be to be safe).
Science by its nature is designed to discover new ideas, new knowledge, and new information. When those discoveries happen, the understanding of humanity on a topic changes and improves. It's why we don't dump feces into our drinking water and why our drinking water is highly processed, all thanks to John Snow's (not the character) scientific discovery.
So yes, the recommendations of food science changes because it should. But the basics have been known for a while (protein, carbs, fiber, fats, moderation, etc). The details are still being worked out, but fundamentals are known.
Quite the dishonest argument, especially fuck off with the water is processed too line. The problem with processed foods is not that they go through a manufacturing process, but that the end product contains added sugar, salt, saturated fat, or nitrates in amounts not typically found in fresh homemade foods. The rest is semantics.
So then say that those ingredients are your concerns.
It would also be reasonable to acknowledge that salt and sugar are excellent preservatives often found in freshly homemade items. As is the case with all these ingredients, the amount makes that difference between a healthy or unhealthy diet.