Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have become one of the most discussed topics in the current food debate. Once mainly confined to niche academic discourse, the term now regularly appears in broadsheet headlines.
Supermarket aisles, television documentaries, and social media platforms have all become battlegrounds in the debate about what we should be eating.
What began as a technical classification has swiftly turned into a loaded label; that is, shorthand for broader concerns about the modern food system.
With the phrase now firmly embedded in the public psyche, policy demands are accelerating at a breakneck pace … potentially leaving the underlying science in the rearview mirror.
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