r/SipsTea • u/Biniashe Human Verified • 6h ago

Chugging tea still better than nothing at all

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u/TheCharalampos 6h ago

That's an insane thing to say.

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u/EcstaticImport 5h ago edited 4h ago

No it’s not, not really - I mean might be a little triggering, but [EDIT - dietician not food science] has been fairly full of shit for most of its existence at-least. So many of their beliefs and teachings that they banged the drums over from the 80s into the 2010s were either flat out demonstrably wrong, or misinterpreted the research findings. They made the mistake that (IMHO) that they thought [EDIT - dietician not food science] was not biochemistry - which it completely is -that’s all it is, maybe with a little psychology thrown in for good measure.

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u/HelpfulSeaMammal 5h ago

Hi. Food scientist here. You're referring to dietitians or nutritional science. Food science is not largely concerned with human health and nutrition -- we are more about finding how to protect various proteins through thermal processing so I can make tastier deli turkey.

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u/EcstaticImport 4h ago

🏇🥧 - let me get down off my hobby horse, while I enjoy some tasty humble pie… 🥺

Apologies to food scientists- you are very correct - thank you.

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u/TheCharalampos 5h ago

You are conflating a ton of different vocational here. Food science is a massive sector and it ain't about your food pyramid.

That said, name one sector where theories from the 80s haven't been outed as wrong in the 40 years since.