Real health
Is high protein always better? What is processed food? And how much do sugar and salt really matter?
Sarah Keogh, registered dietitian and founder of Eat Well, joins me on this week’s episode of the Real Health podcast.
Early in the conversation, Sarah pointed out how many children are in food scarcity in Ireland. The dietitian explained, “People don’t realise how many kids go without food. It may be financial or because the parents are too busy and I think it’s fantastic that the government have this program in place.”
A fear people have is whether a food is processed or ultra processed. The nutrition expert highlights, “Once you have done something to food, it is now processed. So, if you take a chicken breast and you cook it, that is now a processed food. If you make soda bread and mix your brown flour and buttermilk together. You have made an ultra-processed food because you’ve heated it. So, it’s had a process, and you added a food additive, which is baking soda, which is E 500 if you saw it on the label. So brown soda bread made in your kitchen is an ultra-processed food.”
You can listen to the full episode below or wherever you get your podcasts.