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What is clean eating?

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  • Nikion901
    Nikion901 Posts: 2,467 Member
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    msf74 wrote: »
    When I was a young man about town "clean eating" meant trying to base your diet around food which was as minimally processed and / or as close to its natural state as possible - apples rather than apple sauce.

    Now? Don't have a clue. It seems to have multiple definitions and applications to the extent the term is probably not that much use.

    I like this one because it made me think ... when I was a young girl/woman. clean eating meant rinsing the dirt off your vegetables and fruit, and soaking you meat in salted water before cooking it.
  • mattyc772014
    mattyc772014 Posts: 3,543 Member
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    Clean eating is very personal and involves perception. And the definition of clean tells you how most people will think when taking it into context with eating. The term is useless to me. Just google the word and see how much crap comes up for dieting. But if someone uses the term for themselves to create a better healthy lifestyle that is sustainable then more power to them. Congrats... I do hate when people use the word to be douchey.
  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
    edited February 2016
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    sullus wrote: »
    How do you make lard at home in your kitchen?

    it is extremely easy. Render pork fat on low heat. Strain out the Cracklins/lardons. Let the remaining liquid fat solidify.

    It's just about the same process as clarifying butter.

    Huh, neat. Not like I'd ever make some, but still neat.


    Next question: Wine was mentioned. You need quite a bit of equipment to make wine that is not found in your average kitchen or needs to be made DIY. What differentiates that equipment needed for equipment to make anything else that you'd not usually make yourself?
    For example there's kits to make your own candy for sale, with all ingredients you need. Does that make candy clean?
  • CollieFit
    CollieFit Posts: 1,683 Member
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    CollieFit wrote: »
    bruhaha007 wrote: »
    Try to avoid the inside aisles of the grocery store on shop on the edges. That is where the "cleaner" food hangs out so I am told.

    This is a complete myth for any supermarket I use in the UK. Is this perimeter shopping thing just a US thing?

    I think it must be, because if I went to my local Sainsbury's and shopped the perimeter only I'll be eating Tu Clothing and ciggies.

    I would get (in that order....)... fruit, meat, juices, bread, magazines and birthday cards, frozen foods, household cleaning stuff and booze!

  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
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    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    zyxst wrote: »
    sullus wrote: »
    Another one that really gets me is the honey vs high fructose corn syrup debate ... one is awesome and clean and great for you, and the other is the processed scourge of the earth, killing us all.

    But they're nearly the same thing. Their Glucose to Fructose ratios are quite similar and they act the same way in the body.

    They're both made pretty much the same way too. Both start with sugar water from plants, add enzymes to convert about 45% of the sugar to fructose, evaporate until sticky.

    Considering how honey is produced by bees, it's definitely not "clean" (unless eating bee puke is on the Okay to Eat list).

    Raw honey is natural, HFCS is not. So one is clean and the other is not.

    So if a bug makes it then it's clean but if a person makes it then it's unclean?

    Brilliant.

    It's just the meaning of the word natural. Nothing man-made is natural.

    Yes, that's the meaning of the word natural but how is it the meaning of the word "clean?"

    Because clean eating = eating natural foods.

    So since nature doesn't soak leaves in steaming hot water, tea isn't clean?
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,344 Member
    edited February 2016
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    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    zyxst wrote: »
    sullus wrote: »
    Another one that really gets me is the honey vs high fructose corn syrup debate ... one is awesome and clean and great for you, and the other is the processed scourge of the earth, killing us all.

    But they're nearly the same thing. Their Glucose to Fructose ratios are quite similar and they act the same way in the body.

    They're both made pretty much the same way too. Both start with sugar water from plants, add enzymes to convert about 45% of the sugar to fructose, evaporate until sticky.

    Considering how honey is produced by bees, it's definitely not "clean" (unless eating bee puke is on the Okay to Eat list).

    Raw honey is natural, HFCS is not. So one is clean and the other is not.

    So if a bug makes it then it's clean but if a person makes it then it's unclean?

    Brilliant.

    It's just the meaning of the word natural. Nothing man-made is natural.

    Yes, that's the meaning of the word natural but how is it the meaning of the word "clean?"

    Because clean eating = eating natural foods.

    So since nature doesn't soak leaves in steaming hot water, tea isn't clean?

    I thought we'd already established that coffee and tea aren't "clean" because they're "processed" (ground). Just as free-range, grass-fed, hormone-free beef becomes "unclean" when it's ground, and corn becomes "unclean" when it's ground.

    Besides, if you heat water and strain it through tea leaves, your water is no longer "clean" because you've processed it (heat is an intervention by humans, which we know aren't natural), and nature doesn't strain hot water through ground leaves.
  • Afura
    Afura Posts: 2,054 Member
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    CollieFit wrote: »
    CollieFit wrote: »
    bruhaha007 wrote: »
    Try to avoid the inside aisles of the grocery store on shop on the edges. That is where the "cleaner" food hangs out so I am told.

    This is a complete myth for any supermarket I use in the UK. Is this perimeter shopping thing just a US thing?

    I think it must be, because if I went to my local Sainsbury's and shopped the perimeter only I'll be eating Tu Clothing and ciggies.

    I would get (in that order....)... fruit, meat, juices, bread, magazines and birthday cards, frozen foods, household cleaning stuff and booze!

    Just a normal Saturday meal, right? Mmmm I love a light spray of Old English furniture polish. Goes great with my vodka birthday card flambé.

    Outside of my grocery store is produce, the bakery, meat and seafood, cheese, eggs, dairy, frozen foods (not the veg, I don't even know I never go down that aisle), pet food, random holiday crap (right now Easter) for the US.

    I get the concept as a learning tool however (at least in the US) to kind of explain what is meant. However, as the dead horse that has been beaten, there's no hard and fast definition of what it means anyways.
  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
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    Afura wrote: »
    CollieFit wrote: »
    CollieFit wrote: »
    bruhaha007 wrote: »
    Try to avoid the inside aisles of the grocery store on shop on the edges. That is where the "cleaner" food hangs out so I am told.

    This is a complete myth for any supermarket I use in the UK. Is this perimeter shopping thing just a US thing?

    I think it must be, because if I went to my local Sainsbury's and shopped the perimeter only I'll be eating Tu Clothing and ciggies.

    I would get (in that order....)... fruit, meat, juices, bread, magazines and birthday cards, frozen foods, household cleaning stuff and booze!

    Just a normal Saturday meal, right? Mmmm I love a light spray of Old English furniture polish. Goes great with my vodka birthday card flambé.

    Outside of my grocery store is produce, the bakery, meat and seafood, cheese, eggs, dairy, frozen foods (not the veg, I don't even know I never go down that aisle), pet food, random holiday crap (right now Easter) for the US.

    I get the concept as a learning tool however (at least in the US) to kind of explain what is meant. However, as the dead horse that has been beaten, there's no hard and fast definition of what it means anyways.

    I shop at Walmart on work days because it's the only store that wouldn't add an hour commute to run to the store. I can eat bike helmets, automotive parts, and gardening supplies in addition to the typical fare.
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
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    Pork fat is natural right? So clean?
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
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    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    Pork fat is natural right? So clean?

    If you don't grind it up, it'll be kosher.
  • Heartisalonelyhunter
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    sullus wrote: »
    How do you make lard at home in your kitchen?

    it is extremely easy. Render pork fat on low heat. Strain out the Cracklins/lardons. Let the remaining liquid fat solidify.

    It's just about the same process as clarifying butter.

    Huh, neat. Not like I'd ever make some, but still neat.


    Next question: Wine was mentioned. You need quite a bit of equipment to make wine that is not found in your average kitchen or needs to be made DIY. What differentiates that equipment needed for equipment to make anything else that you'd not usually make yourself?
    For example there's kits to make your own candy for sale, with all ingredients you need. Does that make candy clean?
    People have made and produced wine and other alcoholic beverages for thousands of years. You don't need 'quite a bit of equipment'. But obviously your knowledge of wine-making is similar to your knowledge of lard-making.
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
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    Well, I might as well do something with this list and the new debate forums seems as good a place as any for it.

    Once upon a time, I was under the belief that clean eating had a simple definition. It was cooking from scratch using as simple ingredients as possible.

    MFP has disillusioned me of that idea.

    Here on MFP I've seen clean eating defined in a few different ways. These are all answers given by users when asked what clean eating is. Some of them have been formatted to fit the list better, but many of them are copy/pasted directly from their original posts. Be sure to read to the end, where things really start to diverge.
    • Nothing but minimally processed foods.
    • Absolutely no processed foods.
    • Shop only the outside of the grocery store.
    • Nothing out of a box, jar, or can.
    • Only food that's not in a box or hermetically sealed bag, or from e.g. McDonald's.
    • No take-out or junk food at all.
    • Nothing at all with a barcode.
    • Nothing with more than 5 ingredients.
    • Nothing with more than 4 ingredients.
    • Nothing with more than 3 ingredients.
    • Nothing with more than 1 ingredient.
    • No added preservatives.
    • No added chemicals.
    • No chemicals, preservatives, etc. at all.
    • No ingredients that you can't pronounce.
    • No ingredients that sound like they came out of a chemistry book.
    • Nothing that is processed and comes in a package or wrapper, or has any ingredient that sounds scientific.
    • Don't eat products that have a TV commercial.
    • Don't eat foods that have a mascot.
    • If it grows or had a mother, it is ok to eat it.
    • Don't eat products that have a longer shelf life than you do.
    • Eat "food" and not "food-like substances."
    • No added sugar.
    • No added refined sugar.
    • Swap white sugar for brown.
    • No "white" foods.
    • Nothing but lean meats, fruits, and vegetables.
    • Nothing but lean meats, fruits, vegetables, and beans.
    • A plant-based whole food diet.
    • Eat foods as close to their natural state as POSSIBLE, and little to no processed food.
    • Only meat from grass-fed animals and free-range chickens.
    • Only pesticide-free foods.
    • Nothing that causes your body bloat or inflammation.
    • No trigger foods, nothing from fast food chains, nothing in the junk food aisles, and no high gmo foods.
    • No red meat, no sweets, no pasta, no alcohol, no bread, no soda, nothing but fresh fruits and vegetables, complex carbohydrates and lean proteins.
    • Eat a plant based diet consisting of whole plant foods.
    • No bad carbs and processed foods.
    • Anything that makes a better choice.
    • Not cheating on whatever diet you are on.
    • Any food that doesn't make it difficult to hit your macro/micro targets.
    • Clean eating means eating optimally.

    I like to note that under some of those definitions, Fritos are a clean food (only 3 ingredients). Under some of them, eggs and pistachios are not.

    So what is clean eating? And is it a useful descriptor at all?




    Since there's been some confusion on other threads, I want to note that this is on the Nutrition Debate board. So it's going to be, you know, a debate. Bring your opinions. Bring your dictionaries. Bring your studies. But if you don't want people to respond to your posts with questions or rebuttals, this might not be the board for you.

    I don't know why people argue about this so much on this board. Everywhere else I post agrees that clean eating is only eating foods you could grow/prepare yourself. ypu don't have to do it yourself, you can buy them,but they can't require a laboratory or ingredients you can't buy in a grocery store. So butter is clean (because you could get milk and churn it yourself if you had the time) but margarine isn't because you couldn't make it in your kitchen. Likewise peanut butter made from peanuts and salt is clean. Protein powder isn't. It's pretty obvious really

    Macguyver has a lot of options when eating clean.
  • Heartisalonelyhunter
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    sullus wrote: »
    How do you make lard at home in your kitchen?

    it is extremely easy. Render pork fat on low heat. Strain out the Cracklins/lardons. Let the remaining liquid fat solidify.

    It's just about the same process as clarifying butter.

    Huh, neat. Not like I'd ever make some, but still neat.


    Next question: Wine was mentioned. You need quite a bit of equipment to make wine that is not found in your average kitchen or needs to be made DIY. What differentiates that equipment needed for equipment to make anything else that you'd not usually make yourself?
    For example there's kits to make your own candy for sale, with all ingredients you need. Does that make candy clean?


    Also you don't seem to understand my point about 'clean'. The question is if you could replicate all the ingredients shown on a good item and make it at home. If the ingredients for a loaf of bread are flour, yeast, salt then yes, you could. If there are 10+ ingredients most of which you have no idea what they are then no, you couldn't. It's not a complicated idea but you seem to be unable to grasp it.
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
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    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    zyxst wrote: »
    sullus wrote: »
    Another one that really gets me is the honey vs high fructose corn syrup debate ... one is awesome and clean and great for you, and the other is the processed scourge of the earth, killing us all.

    But they're nearly the same thing. Their Glucose to Fructose ratios are quite similar and they act the same way in the body.

    They're both made pretty much the same way too. Both start with sugar water from plants, add enzymes to convert about 45% of the sugar to fructose, evaporate until sticky.

    Considering how honey is produced by bees, it's definitely not "clean" (unless eating bee puke is on the Okay to Eat list).

    Raw honey is natural, HFCS is not. So one is clean and the other is not.

    So if a bug makes it then it's clean but if a person makes it then it's unclean?

    Brilliant.

    It's just the meaning of the word natural. Nothing man-made is natural.

    So if ground beef isn't natural, can I chop up some chicken and stir fry it with vegetables (also chopped)? I don't get why this is more natural than grinding the beef before I cook it, but cooked beef is fine.

    The funny thing about "raw honey" is that it has no control on antibiotics, metals, or pesticides. The best quality honey is filtered and certified - well unless you like dead bees and wasps in your honey (and the acaricides that go with them...)
  • Carlos_421
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    I'm stuck on why I can eat coffee beans and they be clean but if I grind them up and pour water on them it's not clean.
    Beans, clean. Water, clean. Bean water, not clean.

    Whatever.
  • Heartisalonelyhunter
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    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    AnvilHead wrote: »
    I don't know why people argue about this so much on this board. Everywhere else I post agrees that clean eating is only eating foods you could grow/prepare yourself. ypu don't have to do it yourself, you can buy them,but they can't require a laboratory or ingredients you can't buy in a grocery store. So butter is clean (because you could get milk and churn it yourself if you had the time) but margarine isn't because you couldn't make it in your kitchen. Likewise peanut butter made from peanuts and salt is clean. Protein powder isn't. It's pretty obvious really

    Everyone in this *thread* doesn't agree with your definition. We've got people arguing that ground foods (like polenta and peanut butter and ground beef) aren't clean. And I've seen people argue that dairy isn't clean.

    Your definitions may be obvious to you, but they aren't universal. Plenty of those who think they are eating clean disagree with you.

    Vegans don't consider butter "clean".

    Paleo dieters don't consider peanuts "clean".

    Whelp. There goes another arbitrary definition of "clean eating" out the window.

    No vegans don't consider butter vegan. And paleo eaters don't consider peanuts paleo. That's an additional dietary restriction.

    OP I see your point but as I said the pointless arguments about clean only seem to happen on this board because people seem to take it personally that some people don't want to eat artificial ingredients. Everywhere else I post that is the standard.

    And I think that attributing it to "taking it personally" or personal offense ignores the broader point. If two clean eaters in this very thread can't agree, I don't think that you can say that the argument is solely caused by those who aren't clean eaters or that it's pointless. I've laid out my point and my reasoning for this thread several times upthread.

    Although, I do tend to take it personally when clean eaters tell me, for instance, that I'll get cancer for eating the way I do (though they hardly ever know the details of my diet or health history). But that's not on topic for this thread.

    But it's just semantics. It's the same if you asked two people to define a 'healthy' diet. Or 'beautiful'. There are always going to be different definitions of a word. But the OP asked what is clean and I told her the standards definition across the other boards I frequent.
    Also to whoever asked about wine, you can make wine yourself with enough grapes and time. But you could never make canola oil in your kitchen.

    I am the OP. I did ask what clean eating is. I also asked if it was a useful descriptor at the end of the post. And I added a disclaimer that this would be a post where replies would likely have some amount of banter and rebuttal.
    Banter and rebuttal is fine. But I wonder what you were looking for, in the end? Obviously it's useful to the people who use it. As I said, is 'healthy' no longer a useful word because different people have different idea on what 'healthy eating' means? Shall we all decide to ban certain words from the English language because their meaning is fluid?

    It's presented as a judgment -- the word itself demonstrates that -- but there are no external standards to allow us to discuss the meaning of "clean" beyond "well, I say so."

    With healthy, we can discuss what is a healthful diet, different studies, how certain choices relate to certain goals or outcomes, etc. Sure, we will never be able to agree 100% (any more than we can agree on whether a particular book is great or not) but there are specific things we can look to that allow for a reasoned discussion or argument as to why, in my view, a diet without vegetables is typically not a healthy diet. (And with the book example I'd point to aspects of the writing beyond "I just really enjoyed it!" or "I thought it was dumb!")

    With clean, we have two different primary definitions in this thread -- yours (which for the record kind of appeals to me and is more consistent with how I like to eat, although I am not perfect still) and Need2's which would make beef I grind myself at home not clean, because it's no longer in a natural form.

    I mean, if she thinks that's so, she does, and there's no basis to argue, but I also don't see how the term has any general applicability or clarity, then, such that it is useful at all. I don't see why killing an animal and skinning it and processing it into specific cuts = natural, but chopping it up beyond that = not. I don't see why grinding wheat and corn (as certain ancestors of mine did in the middle of nowhere Iowa in the 1830s, as they had a mill) = not natural, but corn itself, a crop that has been changed immensely from how it started out (like so many others) and needs help to reproduce = natural. It's impossible to discuss as we would health principles relating to nutrition. It's just kind of "well, this feels natural and this does not."

    I kind of get it because I used to be obsessive about "eating natural" to the point of refusing to buy dried pasta or canned tomatoes (I'd buy off-season tasteless tomatoes and make pasta from flour, though) and flirting with the idea of trying a locovore challenge (back then the idea of giving up coffee and wine was too much, and local wine is not acceptable). But it seems just mystical or about feel vs. anything concrete or related to health.

    Well yes, Need2 has her own definition and I don't really see her logic but if it helps her eat and feel better then there's no point arguing it further.

    But it seems we agree on many things, just not the term. it may be a value judgement but life is full of those. Personally I am more disturbed by the many threads on mfp of 'I can eat what I like within my calories' or discussing various junk foods as if eating them was some kind of prize or achievement. I really don't care what people do or don't eat but it seems to be that on a site full of obese or formerly obese people threads glorifying Oreos etc is almost like a kid sticking it's tongue out at the teacher. I just wish people would pay more attention to what's actually in the food they eat (and glorify as if it was something worth being worshipped) rather than acting like big shots because they ate some nutritionally bereft food (which is probably why they became obese in the first place). No one jumps on these people but if some newbie says timidly 'I want to eat clean' a whole bunch of people jump on them. I guess it comes with the territory on a calorie-counting website but there is more to food than calories. Where your food comes from matter. How/where it was raised or produced matters. What was added to it matters. And if the word 'clean' makes someone look into those things a little more closely, I am all for it.
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
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    sullus wrote: »
    How do you make lard at home in your kitchen?

    it is extremely easy. Render pork fat on low heat. Strain out the Cracklins/lardons. Let the remaining liquid fat solidify.

    It's just about the same process as clarifying butter.

    Huh, neat. Not like I'd ever make some, but still neat.


    Next question: Wine was mentioned. You need quite a bit of equipment to make wine that is not found in your average kitchen or needs to be made DIY. What differentiates that equipment needed for equipment to make anything else that you'd not usually make yourself?
    For example there's kits to make your own candy for sale, with all ingredients you need. Does that make candy clean?


    Also you don't seem to understand my point about 'clean'. The question is if you could replicate all the ingredients shown on a good item and make it at home. If the ingredients for a loaf of bread are flour, yeast, salt then yes, you could. If there are 10+ ingredients most of which you have no idea what they are then no, you couldn't. It's not a complicated idea but you seem to be unable to grasp it.

    Why is yeast clean? Can't really make it at home, S. cerevisiae doesn't really remain that pure if you do so, generally must be store bought.

    Is blue cheese clean?
    Cazu marzu?
    Yoghurt? Only if you make it?
  • Heartisalonelyhunter
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    sullus wrote: »
    How do you make lard at home in your kitchen?

    it is extremely easy. Render pork fat on low heat. Strain out the Cracklins/lardons. Let the remaining liquid fat solidify.

    It's just about the same process as clarifying butter.

    Huh, neat. Not like I'd ever make some, but still neat.


    Next question: Wine was mentioned. You need quite a bit of equipment to make wine that is not found in your average kitchen or needs to be made DIY. What differentiates that equipment needed for equipment to make anything else that you'd not usually make yourself?
    For example there's kits to make your own candy for sale, with all ingredients you need. Does that make candy clean?


    Also you don't seem to understand my point about 'clean'. The question is if you could replicate all the ingredients shown on a good item and make it at home. If the ingredients for a loaf of bread are flour, yeast, salt then yes, you could. If there are 10+ ingredients most of which you have no idea what they are then no, you couldn't. It's not a complicated idea but you seem to be unable to grasp it.

    Why is yeast clean? Can't really make it at home, S. cerevisiae doesn't really remain that pure if you do so, generally must be store bought.

    Is blue cheese clean?
    Cazu marzu?
    Yoghurt? Only if you make it?

    I Make sourdough bread so I have a 'mother'. She's a ball of pulsating life. But once again, I never said this was about not buying things from a store. It's about paying attention to what's in what you're buying from a store.
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
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    sullus wrote: »
    How do you make lard at home in your kitchen?

    it is extremely easy. Render pork fat on low heat. Strain out the Cracklins/lardons. Let the remaining liquid fat solidify.

    It's just about the same process as clarifying butter.

    Huh, neat. Not like I'd ever make some, but still neat.


    Next question: Wine was mentioned. You need quite a bit of equipment to make wine that is not found in your average kitchen or needs to be made DIY. What differentiates that equipment needed for equipment to make anything else that you'd not usually make yourself?
    For example there's kits to make your own candy for sale, with all ingredients you need. Does that make candy clean?


    Also you don't seem to understand my point about 'clean'. The question is if you could replicate all the ingredients shown on a good item and make it at home. If the ingredients for a loaf of bread are flour, yeast, salt then yes, you could. If there are 10+ ingredients most of which you have no idea what they are then no, you couldn't. It's not a complicated idea but you seem to be unable to grasp it.

    Why is yeast clean? Can't really make it at home, S. cerevisiae doesn't really remain that pure if you do so, generally must be store bought.

    Is blue cheese clean?
    Cazu marzu?
    Yoghurt? Only if you make it?

    I Make sourdough bread so I have a 'mother'. She's a ball of pulsating life. But once again, I never said this was about not buying things from a store. It's about paying attention to what's in what you're buying from a store.

    What kinds of things might be in food from the store that I should avoid?
  • Heartisalonelyhunter
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    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    sullus wrote: »
    How do you make lard at home in your kitchen?

    it is extremely easy. Render pork fat on low heat. Strain out the Cracklins/lardons. Let the remaining liquid fat solidify.

    It's just about the same process as clarifying butter.

    Huh, neat. Not like I'd ever make some, but still neat.


    Next question: Wine was mentioned. You need quite a bit of equipment to make wine that is not found in your average kitchen or needs to be made DIY. What differentiates that equipment needed for equipment to make anything else that you'd not usually make yourself?
    For example there's kits to make your own candy for sale, with all ingredients you need. Does that make candy clean?


    Also you don't seem to understand my point about 'clean'. The question is if you could replicate all the ingredients shown on a good item and make it at home. If the ingredients for a loaf of bread are flour, yeast, salt then yes, you could. If there are 10+ ingredients most of which you have no idea what they are then no, you couldn't. It's not a complicated idea but you seem to be unable to grasp it.

    Why is yeast clean? Can't really make it at home, S. cerevisiae doesn't really remain that pure if you do so, generally must be store bought.

    Is blue cheese clean?
    Cazu marzu?
    Yoghurt? Only if you make it?

    I Make sourdough bread so I have a 'mother'. She's a ball of pulsating life. But once again, I never said this was about not buying things from a store. It's about paying attention to what's in what you're buying from a store.

    What kinds of things might be in food from the store that I should avoid?

    Whatever you choose.