/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11903749
the soda and fries

>>11903760
Which part of the fries are unhealthy? The potato or the salt?

>>11903749
Individually, they all can be considered nutritional to some extent. Put them all together and they form a solid, hand held version of the traditional slop of shyt.

>>11903764
Which part of the salt is unhealthy? The sodium ions or the chlorine ions?

>>11903764
Oil

>>11903749
it would be the meat because of the higher fat and grease content.

>>11903749
bread, soda, and fries, and the sauces are very high in sugar.

>>11903749
Burger in itself is not that bad, it's fast food places that ruin it with excess salt and sugar. There's also tons of chemicals to help preserve them while they sit in a truck to be delivered. The oil used in frying french fries are used multiple times will produce trans fats over time. Soda is always bad for you, no exceptions really.
Freshly prepared burgers aren't that bad, adding fries might throw the macronutrient ratios out of balance though

>>11903771
Salt isn't inherently bad for you, you need it for bodily functions. What's bad for you is bad electrolyte imbalance since many people don't eat enough potassium to balance out a high sodium intake

It's not, people just overeat.

Combining sugary bread, with deep fried starch, with sugar water is fucking stupid though. Especially if you use ketchup, which is disgusting as well. Would you like some packets of sugar to dump on your burger while you're at it? Oh wait, you covered that with the ketchup.

>>11903749
buttery roll
cheese
high fat ground meat
lots of meat

all this makes burgers higher calorie than a standard entree

>>11903772
>oil is unhealthy

>>11903848
>refined fat is healthy

>>11903749
>>11903764
The vast majority of people don't know how to define neither "healthy" nor "unhealthy" food. They just accept what the media and advertises tell them.

A great resource was the "eat this not that" book, which I am not sure whether is still being published

By weight, a burger contains mostly water, followed by protein, fat and carbohydrates. (Yes, water is present in the bun, in the cheese, beef patty, and the lettuce and tomato are more than 90% water by weight). That burger will provide complete nutrition with respect to the three macronutrients listed previously. Is it lacking in fiber, minerals, and other micronutrients that provide or promote other tangential health benefits? Sure, it may.

Does that burger provide excessive fat? Very likely. Is excessive fat, for this meal detrimental for your health? IT DEPENDS ON ONE'S INDIVIDUAL OVERALL HEALTH AND EATING HABITS. Do you exercise moderately and generally eat conservatively? Then that burger is probably not a bad dietary choice. Are you a lazy fatass NEET and eat burger freqently? Very likely a poor dietary choice.


The false dichotomy between "healthy" and "unhealthy" food needs to go away, as those two nebulous terms need to be defined in the context of an individual's overall current state of health.

The only thing I will extend a blanket statement for is sugar consumption; sugar consumption needs to be curtailed for all individuals.

>>11903749
I just ate a double shack burger with onions added and side of 10 chicken nuggers with bbq sauce, is that healthy?

>>11904183
>grains
>vegetables
>protein
>fats & oils
You could do with more dairy, the cheese isn't enough. Go get a milkshake too. Don't worry about the sugar content. Just grab another order of fries and the salt will balance out the sugar.

Look it's not rocket science. You can make a burger at home using healthy ingredients and you'll have a meal that hits all kinds of macro and micro nutrients in one go, providing great fuel and great flavor.

You can also make a burger at home using 80% beef, processed sugary buns, and tons of processed cheese and sauces. All of which are very heavily calorie laden.

The next step into the descent is obviously a meal from McDonald's that will put you at half your daily caloric needs or more. Just getting a single McDouble or McChicken won't be so bad, but most people don't have the willpower not to get a bigger sandwich, or add in their processed and calorie laden french fries, or a soft drink, or a milkshake... you get the idea.

As always, it comes down to calories in/calories out. Barring shit with potentially unsafe levels of sodium like pork brains, or something that when consumed in high amounts can become toxic like some fermented foods, there is no such thing as an inherently "unhealthy" food. It's all about what goes into the dish.

>>11903872
>refined fat is not healthy

The Mc part is junk. McAnything is junk.

>>11903749
It's not junk if it's made properly with decent ingredients.

>>11903764
The serving size, and that they're usually dipped in sugary ketchup along with drinking a soda. But a moderate portion of fries is not inherently unhealthy.

>>11904387
Do you have any idea which board you're on?

>>11903749
>Read meat
>White bread
OP is a retard

>>11903764
Acrylamide.

>>11903749
the cheese, if it's american pasteurized cheese product. And the bun too, if its not whole/sprouted grain. You can get away with buttering your buns if its organic butter.

>>11903749
A burger doesn't have cheese burger default, you gook.

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You can surprisingly become much healthier eating nothing but meat. It's the perfect lifestyle for rehabilitating feminized chan autists and tendie-NEETs. Fat is far more efficient fuel than sugar. You can literally eat nothing but grain fed burger patties and get way healthier than the average self-polluting basement dweller. On muscle meat alone you're getting much higher nutrient density than you would on a mixed high carb diet. If you really want to start minmaxing for health, find blood and organs from naturally raised animals. Satiety is reached quickly for nutrient rich and easily bioavailable foods. After just a few bites of liver or fish roe you'll know when you've had enough. Cod liver oil is an easy nutritional workaround if the meat quality isn't great. If every fat brainwashed carb-addict realized that they could literally clean their arteries eating fresh meat and eggs exclusively every day, you'd have a lot of unhappy merchants.