A new study found that eating ultra-processed foods was associated with tens of thousands of premature deaths in 2019.
This study was carried out in Brazil, but keep in mind that Brazilians typically eat much less of these food groups than people from high-income countries like the US, Canada and Australia.
More than half of Americans' caloric intake comes from ultra-processed foods, which are associated with premature deaths.
foods as being either ready-to-eat or heat-up industrial formulations made from either food extracts or laboratory-synthesized ingredients.
These include items like soups, sauces, pizza, hot dogs, sausages, sodas, ice cream, and baked goods.
In the study period, 261,061 adults aged 30 to 69 died from preventable, noncommunicable illnesses.
The study found that processed foods are increasingly replacing traditional foods globally.
study found that sugar-sweetened beverages are associated with around 184,000 adult deaths each year