Ultra-processed foods bad for you? It’s the formulation, not the process

May 8, 2023

MINNPOST opinion piece by by Allen Levine and Job Ubbink: We are food scientists/nutritionists, and we understand the need for processed foods. From time to time, we even eat them. Here’s why.

Cereal close up in a bowl.

Blanketly calling what the world eats “ultra-processed” leads to an unjustified fear of food processing and results in rejecting some healthy, processed foods while missing out on the main culprit.