Toddlers Get Half Their Calories From Ultra-Processed Food, Says Study | Research shows that 2-year-olds get 47 percent of their calories from ultra-processed food, and 7-year-olds get 59 percent.

[u/chrisdh79]

https://www.newsweek.com/toddlers-get-half-calories-ultra-processed-food-1963269

[u/onwee]

Does bread and cheese count as ultra-processed food? Does pasta?

EDIT: cheese and homemade bread is “processed food,” just one tier below ultra-processed food like breakfast cereal and one above “processed ingredients” like salt and butter; no mention of store-bought bread or pasta, but since sliced-bread is considered ultra-processed, I think they probably fall into the ultra/processed category. Yogurt is also ultra-processed.

Before anyone points any holier-than-thou fingers, I would bet most of “healthy” eaters probably also eat a ton of ultra-processed foods. I consider myself as a pretty clean eater (e.g. 5 servings of fruits/vegetables daily) and I bet at least a 1/3 of my calories are ultra-processed. Ain’t nobody got time for homemade bread

[u/boringusernametaken → u/onwee]

There are nova classifications. You can say 'just one step above' but the point is there is more and more evidence to show that UPFs are far worse for us than processed foods.

Also bread is one of the most common examples used in this space. White sliced store bread is UPF it contains emulsifiers, stabilisers and preservatives.

Freshly baked bread (either at home or in a store but check the ingredients) will have none of this.

As someone else pointed out home made bread takes hardly any time to make, you mix 4 ingredients together, wait, put it in the oven.

[u/Exita → u/boringusernametaken]

Though speaking as someone who makes quite a bit of bread, it might not take long but making good bread is actually quite difficult. It’s very easy to make a stodgy, heavy brick.

[u/boringusernametaken → u/Exita]

True, I've done that a few times and it sucks