what counts as “ultra processed” food?

Question

Read [this article](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/01/health/worst-ultraprocessed-food-early-death-wellness) and though I’m scientifically literate and understand how scientific research can be overdramatized by the media, I’m worried. How I avoid ultra processed food, it is apparently everything. Ugh

In: Biology

Answer 1

If you look at the ingredient list and it reads less like things in your pantry and fridge and more like what you’d expect labels on containers in a science lab say then it’s ultra processed.

Basically if it has something like butylated hydroxytoluene as an ingredient it’s “ultra processed”