Ultra-Processed Foods – Can/should they be made Healthier?
Ultra-processed foods are understood to be detrimental to human health across several parameters, including macronutrient and micronutrient composition, fibre, effects of food additives, toxins, heat exposure, and packaging.[1]
They are only cheap (as promoted by various MPs) when the costs of their negative metabolic effects are externalised to personal health care and public health budgets.
The cost of the metabolically related and rapidly increasing obesity crisis and just one of the consequences...