What exactly is considered "clean" food?

Clean eating is the process in which one eats food which has been minimally handled, then brags about it and offers it as a panacea for the ills of mankind.
See also, sancti-fit, nutri-nazi

ba-ZING!

The article on the "Twinkie Diet" was amazing. He was considered overweight on his BMI prior to reducing his calorie intake from 2600 a day to 1800. He stated he will add back 300 calories to maintain. That is exactly what the Weight Watcher diet does even though they do it in "Points" instead of calorie counting. Since being on MFP I am starting to see that it really is the calorie count that matters.

So the choice really is "Would I rather have a BIG salad that will fill me up or a dang Ding Dong! Sometimes the Ding Dong wins but you sure get hungry a lot sooner and then you over eat because your not satified!!!!"

Lastly, why not put more "NATURAL" foods in your body then all of the additives and preservatives laden foods in your body! Just seems better for you!

What is flour? In fact what are carbohydrates?

Flour
1: a product consisting of finely milled wheat.

This is the ingredient list for basic AP flour:
INGREDIENTS: UNBLEACHED HARD WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY
FLOUR (A NATURAL YEAST FOOD), NIACIN (A B VITAMIN), REDUCED
IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE (VITAMIN B1), RIBOFLAVIN (VITAMIN
B2), FOLIC ACID (A B VITAMIN).

But you can easily find bags that are pure wheat flour, with no vitamins and barley flour added at most grocery stores.


What do carbohydrates have to do with anything? Nobody said anything about cutting those out.
It seems like you're being pointedly obtuse to make this seem much more restrictive and complicated than it can be.

Here's what I want you to do, read the below quote again

Also, one of those ingredients cannot be a form of sugar

Do some research and then you will come to realize the abject silliness of such a rule

I think you're confusing ingredients (added sugar) with naturally occurring sugar (which won't appear on the ingredient list). True, all of the foods you mentioned earlier do contain sugar, but not as an ingredient. So they fit her criteria just fine.

I'm a bit confused by this term and what it entails. Can someone give me a bit of guidance here? Sorry if this seems like a silly question, it just seems everywhere I see it someone has a different definition!

Clean=didn't drop it on the floor

Acg - do you consider straight wheat or other grains to be a sugar?

I'm not trying to argue for argument's sake here, or about how your body processes carbohydrates, or even the validity of cutting sugar out. I'm just saying that one of her rules is that the ingredient list not contain some form of sugar (assuming she means sugar, corn syrup, etc.), and that it's hardly restrictive.

What are some examples of polysaccharides?

the effing cellulose that was all over my packaged cheese crumbles last night! Nasty. lol.

I don't see how that applies to her simple, simple rule, though.

People use this term differently, but generally it refers to food as close to it's natural state as possible. The more processed a food, the less "clean".

I've been eating fruits, veggies, fish, eggs, chicken, turkey and nuts as a "clean" diet... Now that I have been doing it for a month its starting to seem pretty limiting as far as variety.

To me:

Lean proteins-chicken, fish, lean beef, lowfat dairy products, shellfish...etc.

WHOLE fruits and veggies. Juices don't get to count here.

Whole grains-even then in moderation

Nuts

Other fats and oils get a little tricky. You could say oils low in saturated fats, but oils like vegetable oils (soybean) have undesireable omega 3/6/9 ratios and are not ideal. Other oils may be high in saturated fats (palm and coconut) but the saturated fats are largely medium chain triglycerides which are very easy for your body to use as energy and don't contribute to all the nasty things saturated fats get blamed for.