Everyone agrees that processed foods are bad for you. When it comes to defining what they actually are, however, there is considerably less agreement. 

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• Nutrition and health. The issue is not food, nor nutrients, so much as processing
• Ultra-Processed Foods: Definitions and Policy Issues
• Examining the Nova Food Classification System and the Healthfulness of Ultra-Processed Foods
• A new classification of foods based on the extent and purpose of their processing
• Ultra-processed diets cause excess calorie intake and weight gain
• Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?
• Ultra-processed foods and mortality
• Association of ultra-processed food intake with risk of inflammatory bowel disease: prospective cohort study
• Academic and doctor Chris van Tulleken: ‘Ultra-processed products are food that lies to us’
• Food addiction: a valid concept?
• The study of food addiction using animal models of binge eating
• Obesity and the brain: how convincing is the addiction model?
• Ultra-processed foods and cardiovascular disease: analysis of three large US prospective cohorts
• Sugar addiction: the state of the science
• The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food
• Premature Mortality Attributable to Ultraprocessed Food Consumption in 8 Countries
• Ultra-processed food intake and animal-based food intake 

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