Walk into any grocery store and you’ll see it: aisles filled with brightly colored packages containing ultra-processed ready-to-eat meals, quick snacks and flavored drinks — often billed as “healthy.” ...

Ultra-processed foods and research into their health effects has gained attention in recent years. Yet despite growing interest, confusion—and even controversy—remains about how these foods fit into a ...

Despite its widespread use, "ultra-processed" food does not have a universal definition. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he’d like to define it by April. So far, ...

Experts are once again raising red flags about ultra-processed foods, or UPFs. And this time, they're armed with a growing body of data. In November, researchers published a trio of papers in The ...

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KANSAS CITY — An upcoming US federal definition of ultra-processed foods may affect non-nutritive sweeteners used in sugar reduction, not only artificial sweeteners but potentially those perceived by ...

Ultra-processed foods raise clinical weakness risk in haemodialysis patients. Learn how diet impacts outcomes. Read more.

If you’ve been following recent food-industry news, you might have noticed an interesting shift in how processed foods are being discussed. This month, San Francisco initiated legal action targeting ...

A new study analyzed data from 1,400 older adults in Amsterdam, tracking their diet habits and cognitive test scores over a decade. The results suggest that eating ultra-processed food wasn’t linked ...