What is ultra-processed foods?
You must have heard of processed foods, packaged foods that come usually with oil, salt, and sugar. But what does ultra mean? They are processed foods undergone multiple processes and examples are those foods you are very familiar with:
- soft drinks, ice-cream, packaged soups
- sweetened breakfast cereals, chips, chocolate, candy
- chicken nuggets, hotdogs, fries
What is wrong with ultra-processed foods?
People who eat ultra-processed foods have a 25 percent higher risk of IBS, but you may say that I have already had it. Well, read the next piece of information from George Zaidan, a science communicator:
People who ate 10 percent more ultra-processed food had a 14 percent higher risk of death.
Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us, p. 18
In a word, ultra-processed foods are super dangerous to your health, an ultra kiss of death!
