Walk into any grocery store and you'll see it: aisles filled with brightly colored packages containing ready-to-eat meals, ...

There's already been a lot said about ultra-processed foods and their potential effects on human health. Food & Wine has diligently tracked the latest scientific findings, which indicate that ...

New research shows that ultra-processed foods may increase the risk of death following a cancer diagnosis. Image Credit: Comstock/Getty Images Cancer survivors who eat higher amounts of ...

Something strange is happening in grocery stores across America. People are squinting at ingredient labels like they're solving puzzles, turning over boxes of once-trusted cereals, and asking ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Older adults can dramatically reduce the amount of ultraprocessed foods they eat while keeping a familiar, balanced diet – and this shift leads to ...

Despite its widespread use, "ultra-processed" food does not have a universal definition. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he’d like to define it by April. So far, ...

And much of the blame for this can be placed on how we eat. The question, of course, is which part of our diets is ...

For many, a new year comes with a renewed look at what we’re eating. We hear the words “processed” and “ultra-processed” a lot these days, but what do those words really mean when it comes to what’s ...

Ultra-processed foods are engineered for taste and convenience, not nutrition, often packing high levels of sugar, salt, and unhealthy fats into products that are stripped of fiber and essential ...

So far, the conversation around ultra-processed foods (UPFs) has focused on what these foods are, and how they can be identified. Much of the coverage around the health risks of UPFs have been linked ...

Experts dug into decades of research to show how ultra-processed foods are designed for maximum reward, rapid absorption, and habitual overuse — paralleling tobacco industry tactics. Researchers from ...