The war on highly processed food is ramping up, but cutting it out is harder than you think ...

It's a whole new way to shop smarter. Ultra-processed foods have been enemy No.1 in nutrition over the past decade, but it can be tough to know which products fall into this category when you’re ...

The 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans avoid the term “ultra-processed foods,” prompting both praise and criticism ...

New dietary guidelines released by the Trump administration tell Americans to avoid ultra-processed foods but don't have an ...

UPFs often contain high levels of saturated fat, salt, sugar and additives, which experts say leaves less room in people’s ...

Newly released federal dietary guidelines for Americans call for fewer ultra-processed foods, but some public health experts ...

Making changes to the diet may help in relieving symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C). Learn which foods to include and which to avoid.

In November 2025, a group of the world’s leading experts on ultra-processed foods (UPFs) came together to review the latest ...

Share on Pinterest How do ultra-processed foods affect diabetes? Here’s the latest evidence. Image credit: Maskot/Getty Images Research shows that around 70% of the food supply chain in the United ...

New evidence reveals how everyday processed foods may disrupt gut barriers and amplify inflammation, while targeted dietary strategies offer promising ways to improve outcomes in Crohn’s disease.

New research lays out just how widespread UPFs have become — and what that shift means for long-term health. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience ...

In 2019, about 4.9 million people around the world were living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Previous studies show that eating a diet high in ultra-processed foods can be problematic for ...