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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