ultra-processed food. You’ll be familiar with such products: brightly packaged, temptingly easy to eat and seemingly good value.
It’s food that you couldn’t make from raw ingredients at home, with additives that aren’t found in shops – and it is highly addictive.But avoiding the most obvious examples of UPF isn’t all you need to do.
Choosing supposedly healthy options such as higher-protein snacks, vegan meat substitutes and low-fat dairy products means you’re in danger of consuming food with lower nutrition.
Often these products are high in sugar, refined carbohydrate or fat – sometimes all three – and contain ingredients manipulated to have a long shelf life.If you’re time-poor, it’s easy to head to the supermarket and not read beyond the health claims on the front of packages.
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