Approximation to the analysis of food and nutrition from the perspective of real food

Abstract

The currently promoted and dominant eating pattern is characterized by strong industrialization and the presence of ultra-processed food products whose nutritional profile affects health, and also generates negative social, cultural, economic and environmental implications, associated with the forms of production, processing, distribution and consumption of these products, promoting a distance between the human being and food, deteriorating the food culture and making the alimentary act invisible as a social fact. This document reflects on the importance of migrating towards a food pattern based on real foods and outlines real food as a proposal for the analysis of food and nutritional issues. Real food is an avant-garde conception with little theorizing, it could be identified as a pattern of eating that overcomes the limited vision of nutritionism, in turn, represents a low environmental impact, is pertinent from the sociocultural point of view and promotes the adoption of healthy lifestyles.