{"id":480972,"date":"2026-02-17T15:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/480972\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:47:13","slug":"how-frightened-should-we-be-of-ultra-processed-food-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/480972\/","title":{"rendered":"How frightened should we be of ultra-processed food? \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Ultra-processed foods are irresistible \u2013 they\u2019re made that way. The food manufacturers that dominate our supermarket shelves are constantly looking for ways to make us buy (and that means eat) more. And to find cheaper ingredients. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">But isn\u2019t just about everything in our diet, apart from fresh fruit and vegetables, processed in some way? So why has ultra-processed food become the focus of so much concern and debate? <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Nutritionist Sarah Keogh gives her view on what\u2019s happening on our plates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Suzanne Brennan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultra-processed foods are irresistible \u2013 they\u2019re made that way. The food manufacturers that dominate our supermarket shelves are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[49,48,84,395],"class_list":["post-480972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}