Yet advice to limit processed foods can seem unhelpful, given how convenient they are and the growing array of products that fall into the category. To more precisely identify the processed foods of most concern, scientists came up with a system that groups foods into four categories. It’s far from perfect, but the system says highly processed foods are made mostly of industrialized ingredients and additives, with little to no intact whole foods. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found people ate an average of 500 extra calories a day when fed mostly processed foods, compared with when the same people were fed minimally processed foods. Even without the latest studies, advice to limit processed foods probably makes sense to most people.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 15, 2019 21:55 UTC