How to cut ultra-processed foods from your diet

如何从饮食中减少超加工食品

Life Kit

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2024-10-21

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They're tasty and cheap, but they come with health risks. NPR health correspondent Maria Godoy explains how to spot and avoid ultra-processed snacks and packaged foods. This episode originally published June 20, 2023. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

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  • You're listening to Life Kit from NPR.

  • Hey everybody, it's Marielle.

  • Next time you're at the supermarket, pick up some packaged foods and look over the ingredient list.

  • You'll start to notice a lot of the same things.

  • High levels of salt and fat, added.

  • Sugars, added colorings, added flavorings, hydrolyzed protein isolates, high fructose corn syrup bulking agents like maltodextrin for instance.

  • These are all sort of the types of ingredients you'd see in an ultra processed food.

  • Carrageenan.

  • You know, those kinds of things.

  • That's Maria Godoy, a health correspondent at npr.

  • She's been reporting on the health effects of ultra processed industrially made foods.

  • These are foods that are made with ingredients derived from foods and then you reassemble them to create a product that's tasty, cheap, convenient and shelf stable, which means they last a long time.

  • They tend to have a lot of additives like the ones we mentioned earlier.

  • You might find things like emulsifiers and stabilizers.

  • And these are ingredients used to improve the texture of the foods and make them taste better, which also can help make them harder to resist.

  • So we tend to overeat them.