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Ultra-processed foods are engineered for taste and convenience, not nutrition, often packing high levels of sugar, salt, and unhealthy fats into products that are stripped of fiber and essential ...

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The marketers of ultra-processed foods have taken a leaf out of the tobacco industry's playbook to make their foods more addictive.

Study: How ultra-processed foods modulate cardiometabolic risk: A 2 × 2 factorial randomized controlled trial protocol in healthy adults. Image Credit: meigav / Shutterstock A controlled-feeding trial ...

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Processed foods are often portrayed as harmful or unhealthy, but many beliefs about them are based on myths rather than facts. The term “processed” includes everything from canned vegetables to bread, ...

Consumption of ultra-processed foods – including soft drinks, snacks and ready meals – is growing worldwide, despite evidence they are unhealthy. Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) make up about 70% of ...

Ultra-processed foods are unhealthy snacks that may be harming heart health, warns a European cardiology report published in ...