In November 2025, a group of the world’s leading experts on ultra-processed foods (UPFs) came together to review the latest evidence for the overall impact of these foods on our health for leading ...
Ultra-processed foods are everywhere in the American diet, and researchers are finding alarming consequences. Using national health data, scientists found that adults with the highest intake of these ...
New research from the American Heart Association suggests these foods have some benefits.
Eating more ultra-processed foods — like sodas, packaged snacks, and processed meats — was linked to a 47% higher risk of ...
When people ate a highly processed diet for two weeks, they consumed far more calories and gained more weight and body fat than they did when they ate a less processed diet—even though both diets had ...
Discover the differences between processed and ultra-processed foods and their impact on health in this informative guide to making better dietary choices.
The global rise of ultra-processed foods in diets worldwide poses a major public health threat, according to experts who published a series of papers in medical journal The Lancet. The authors cite ...
People who switch to a fully unprocessed diet don’t just eat differently—they eat smarter. Research from the University of ...
A controlled feeding study out of South Dakota State University shows that older adults who ate fewer ultra-processed foods naturally consumed fewer calories, lost weight and abdominal fat, and showed ...
Brenda Davy and Alex DiFeliceantonio in the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC’s metabolic kitchen, where studies on food and eating behavior take place. Young Americans are gaining weight.
New research suggests that people who focus on whole, unprocessed foods may be able to eat larger portions while still losing ...
Awareness of ultra-processed foods is growing, but new research from the International Food Information Council finds consumers lack shared definitions — creating confusion and opportunity for food ...