Hello all my friends in the Hive Learners community, I 
As usual, I am back to enliven the featured contest held by the Hive Learners community. This fairly popular contest has entered its latest Sunday, Week 19. In this first edition, it discusses natural foods vs. processed foods. The discussion is quite interesting for us to describe on this occasion. Of course, it is familiar to all of us because many of us know and consume natural foods and eat processed foods every day.
Before discussing further we certainly need to know what natural and processed foods are, many of us may still misinterpret and assume all the food we eat is natural even though we have eaten processed foods, therefore it is very important for us to know it.
Natural food is food that comes from nature and does not undergo a processing process that can reduce the nutritional levels in the food. We often encounter natural foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fresh milk, and many others. Sometimes we often ignore how important natural foods are for our bodies because natural foods are healthy and can meet the body's needs for energy and nutritious substances.
Processed foods are various types of food that have gone through certain processes, such as heating, drying, canning, freezing, packaging, and so on. This process is intentionally done on food with a purpose. For example, the process of drying and freezing aims to ensure that food can be stored for a long time. Meanwhile, the heating process may be carried out to add nutritional value, enrich the taste, or kill harmful bacteria.
With this aim, not all processed foods will cause adverse effects on health. This negative impact usually comes from additives or certain processes that eliminate the nutritional content of a food ingredient. For example, the process of excessive heating so as to reduce the nutritional content in the meal, or mixing various foods so as to produce content that is not good for the body if consumed continuously.
In my opinion, from the discussion about natural foods and processed foods above, we can conclude that natural foods are very good for the body because they contain lots of vitamins and nutrients that are very useful for our bodies. However, processed foods are not always bad depending on the processing process. However, processed foods are not good for continuous consumption because the nutritional content is lacking so they cannot meet the nutritional needs that the body needs. There are also processed foods that contain substances that are not good for the body if consumed continuously. Therefore we must be more careful in choosing food.
In my opinion, we can eat processed foods that are good and healthy, namely eating well processed so that it does not reduce the nutritional content of the food. What we need to avoid is eating processed foods that are not healthy because they are processed excessively and contain ingredients that are not good for our bodies. If we want to eat processed foods that are not good for the body such as fast food. Try to always be wise and not overdo it even though the taste may be very good but it is not good for our health.
That's my discussion on this occasion. Hopefully it can add insight for all of us, especially myself. Hopefully we can always keep the food we consume so that our bodies are healthy and avoid disease. Always think positive in life. Have a nice day all of you.
Special thanks:
@hive-learners
@bruno-kema