/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>Food is low in fat or fat free
>Product label boasts this fact
>It's not even a diet product
>People just think it's an added benefit
>Product is still high in carbohydrates (bonus if starchy or unrefined), high GI, high preservative, highly processed and devoid of vitamins and minerals
>Bonus round: Product claims to be high in protein for no particular reason
>Retard round: It's a food that wouldn't even under normal circumstances contain fat any way, like supermarket bread

Why do people avoid fat? I mean if you're avoiding calories fine. Fat is pretty calorie dense. But fat is also important in that it makes you feel full. No product should be low in fat as a default. But so many meals are exclusively 95, 96, 97, 98, 99% fat free! It's not like the frozen or premade meal has two varieties either - a normal and a light. It's just a light meal, but it's not lean cuisine or whatever. It's literally just brand x of frozen mac and cheese or cup a soup.

Fun fact: It was the second people started avoiding fat that obesity became a thing. Sure, that's correlative and there were a range of factors - but surely people by now should understand that avoiding fat isn't good for your health and it certainly won't make you thin. Fat people who spend their whole lives avoiding fat should have learned that by now.