What makes a food qualify as “ultra-processed” and why are they worse for you?

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Just seeing a lot of articles about ultra processed foods lately and wondering.

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Just think about the path the ingredients take before they get to you. Most of those ingredients (grain, sugar, etc) were farmed a long time ago. The lowest quality yield from those harvests are what is put into packaged foods. The ingredients are sitting in silos, sometimes for years, and are constantly degrading over time. By the time the food ends up on your plate, not only are there lots of unhealthy, unnatural additives, but everything else has been stored, dried, ground up into powder, etc until most of the beneficial nutrients have been damaged or destroyed.

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