It’s difficult to go very far in the nutrition world at the moment without coming across something about ultra-processed foods. We’re told to cut them down, swap them for “whole foods”, check ingredient lists and avoid foods with ingredients we can’t pronounce. This message makes nutrition seem pretty straightforward: Ultra-processed = bad; Minimally processed = good But nutrition is rarely that simple. A recent critical review published in Proceedings of the Nutrition Societ

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