As the Trump administration looks to create a federal definition of ultra-processed foods, the question of the best way to differentiate products within a category that can lump packaged whole-wheat bread together with soda and cheese puffs has been the subject of much debate.

Your morning routine might include a diet soda, maybe a few slices of bacon, perhaps some packaged cookies for a snack. These seem like harmless choices. Millions of people make them every single day without giving it much thought.

New Australian research reveals that ultra-processed foods make up nearly half of kids' diets, posing obesity risks for older children aged 10–12. Study: Ultra-processed food intake and risk of obesity among schoolchildren aged 8–12 years living in ...

Back when Kerri Boutelle's children were younger, she remembers watching how kids would eat ice cream cones. She noticed a big difference between some siblings. "One child would eat half of the ice cream cone and put it down," says Boutelle, who's a ...

We all know that ultraprocessed foods aren’t the healthiest choice, but not all ultraprocessed foods have the same impact on our health. It can depend on how much a food is processed and for what purpose. In fact, some ultraprocessed foods can even be ...

What you're about to read might change the way you look at your grocery cart forever. Picture this: ordinary foods sitting on supermarket shelves across the country may be silently accelerating brain aging by years. Researchers following hundreds of ...

How did ultra-processed foods become a delivery system for plastic fragments now embedding themselves in the human brain?

The American diet is killing us. On that point, public health experts largely agree. And in recent years, people who want to make Americans healthier — across the ideological spectrum — are targeting ultra-processed foods, which make up the majority of ...

A controlled feeding study out of South Dakota State University shows that older adults who ate fewer ultra-processed foods naturally consumed fewer calories, lost weight and abdominal fat, and showed improvements in insulin, nutrient-sensing hormones, and ...

Eating ultra-processed foods could lead to an increased risk of being diagnosed with precancerous colorectal growths for women under 50, according to new research. A study, published Thursday in JAMA Oncology, looked at health outcomes for 29,105 nurses ...