"People don't realise how many kids go without food. It may be financial or because the parents are too busy and I think it's fantastic that the government have this program in place."
"Once you have done something to food, it is now processed. So, if you take a chicken breast and you cook it, that is now a processed food. If you make soda bread and mix your brown flour and buttermilk together. You have made an ultra-processed food because you've heated it. So, it's had a process, and you added a food additive, which is baking soda, which is E 500 if you saw it on the label. So brown soda bread made in your kitchen is an ultra-processed food."
A significant number of children in Ireland experience food scarcity, driven by financial hardship or parents being too busy to provide regular meals. Government programs exist to support children who go without food. Any alteration to a food item qualifies it as processed; simple cooking of a chicken breast counts as processing. Combining ingredients and applying heat can result in an ultra-processed product, especially when a food additive, such as baking soda (E 500), is introduced. Homemade items can therefore meet criteria for ultra-processed classification based on processing steps and additives.
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