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5 foods I got wrong - Tim Spector
ZOE Science & Nutrition
What Is Ultra Processed Food?
Most food we eat is processed to some extent, even something like butter or milk can be considered processed because it's not just eating the raw plant. But what we mean by ultra processed is when the food itself no longer resembles the original ingredients so that you are using extracts of plants or meats that no longer are the same as those original members. And they tend to have at least 10 ingredients and to make them stick together they've often got these glues or gums or thickeners to make them seem like real foods again. So they're like reconstituting these foods. This is unfortunately what constitutes 50% of our diet in the UK and 60% ofour diet in the
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