Thinking Nutrition

The perils of highly processed foods


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"Just cut out processed foods if you want to be healthy". It’s an easy throw-away line loved by nutrition wellness influencers on social media, but such advice shows naivety for what happens to food in its journey to our plate. Almost everything you eat to some extent has been processed, and not all processed foods are bad for the body. Now nutrition researchers are better defining the world of processed foods and here, it is the new term of ‘ultra-processed foods’ that you will be seeing used more in the future. In this podcast, I look at what defines an ultra-processed food and explain how they are now recognised for the unhealthy addition they make to your diet. 

Links referred to in the podcast 

  • NOVA classification system  http://www.fao.org/3/ca5644en/ca5644en.pdf 
  • Ultra-processed foods and obesity https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7194406 
  • Ultra-processed foods, health and mortality https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31623843 
  • Clinical trial of ultra-processed foods and weight gain https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31105044

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