“Healthy” labels on children’s food often mask high sugar and ultra-processed ingredients, exploiting vague regulations and ...

Children fed a diet packed with ultra-processed foods (UPFs) could be left with buck teeth, concerning research has suggested. Additive-laden foods such as crisps and sweets have been vilified for ...

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Food Detectives has launched a free virtual nutrition program teaching elementary-age ...

Background The global surge in ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption is a major public health challenge, particularly among adolescents. UPFs, characterised by high energy density, added sugars, fats ...

UPFs are not modified whole foods; instead, these products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods, with little or no intact food content. Typical ingredients of ...

Nutritionists have warned parents against feeding their children excessive amounts of processed foods, saying that ...

Food advocacy groups says the EU must overhaul its food rules now or risk leaving consumers, especially low-income families and children, exposed to misleading claims, weak enforcement, and unchecked ...

Ultra processed foods are rapidly taking the place of fresh food in the diets of children and adults on every continent. Now, according to the world’s largest review from a series of three papers just ...

We know ultra-processed foods are a staple of diets throughout the nation — because they are accessible, affordable and convenient due to their ...

Americans Are Starting To Turn Away From Ultra-Processed Foods Between 2013–2014 and August 2021–August 2023, the consumption ...

Leading chef Darina Allen has compared some hot meals provided to children in schools to “airline food”. The owner of Ballymaloe Cookery School also told the Oireachtas education committee that the ...