Walk into any grocery store and you’ll see it: aisles filled with brightly colored packages containing ultra-processed ready-to-eat meals, quick snacks and flavored drinks — often billed as “healthy.” ...

As the industrial food system pushes ultraprocessed foods to every corner of the globe, new research shows that even seemingly healthy packaged meals may fall short of the benefits offered by whole, ...

Newly released federal dietary guidelines for Americans call for fewer ultra-processed foods, but some public health experts are concerned that a lack of information around definitions for such foods ...