Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are displacing healthy diets “all over the world” despite growing evidence of the risks they pose and should be sold with tobacco-style warnings, according to the nutritional scientist who first coined the term.
“UPFs are increasing their share in and domination of global diets, despite the risk they represent to health in terms of increasing the risk of multiple chronic diseases,” Monteiro told the Guardian ahead of the conference in São Paulo. “UPFs are displacing healthier, less processed foods all over the world, and also causing a deterioration in diet quality due to their several harmful attributes. Together, these foods are driving the pandemic of obesity and other diet-related chronic diseases, such as diabetes.”
And how does 'The Guardian' choose to illustrate this article? Not with anything any normal person would consider 'food', but rather sweets and snacks:
Want to see some real ultra-processed foods? Here they are:
I don't quite get why there would be a reverse correlation between how processed something is and how nutritious it is. Maybe some very poor quality ingredients would need a lot of processing to make them palletable but even then, just because something tastes bad in its unprocessed form doesn't necessarily mean that it's automatically bad for you.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: Are you trying to stop Mr Monteiro from earning the fat living he thinks he deserves from the kind of mugs who read the Grauniad? That's not very kind . . .
ReplyDeleteThey must have a deal with PA for that one photo. They use it in just about every UPF/HFSS story they run
ReplyDeleteWhen a raw carrot is chopped, voila! it has been processed. But if we are talking ready-meals like curries, pizzas, pastas, pies, etc then compared to the 90's and 00's, those have become very tasteless and not worth buying - the seasoning especially salt has been drastically reduced. I cook my own processed food, today it will be a Yemenite chicken soup to celebrate our new PM clocking off at 6pm on his first day in the office.
ReplyDelete"I don't quite get why there would be a reverse correlation between how processed something is and how nutritious it is."
ReplyDeleteThere isn't it's just a food 'bogeyman' story.
"Are you trying to stop Mr Monteiro from earning the fat living he thinks he deserves from the kind of mugs who read the Grauniad? That's not very kind . . ."
Heh!
"They must have a deal with PA for that one photo. They use it in just about every UPF/HFSS story they run"
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"But if we are talking ready-meals like curries, pizzas, pastas, pies, etc then compared to the 90's and 00's, those have become very tasteless and not worth buying - the seasoning especially salt has been drastically reduced. "
Yes, and if it's been left out at the cooking stage, you can never replicate the taste by adding it at the serving stage.