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. Even though processing itself doesn’t automatically make food unhealthy, “processed foods” is generally a negative term. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWTo 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 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.

Source: thestar June 18, 2019 19:52 UTC