{"id":32064,"date":"2025-07-29T22:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/32064\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T22:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:26:13","slug":"two-minute-challenge-can-you-spot-the-ultra-processed-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/32064\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-minute challenge: Can you spot the ultra-processed foods?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With recent studies finding that ultra-processed foods (UPFs) could be putting our health at risk \u2013 and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crm30kwvv17o\" class=\"ssrcss-jx182a-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shortening our lives<\/a> \u2013 lots of us are trying to cut back on these popular convenience foods.<\/p>\n<p>While there\u2019s no official definition of a UPF, a way to spot one is by looking at the ingredients list on the packet. If you see things that you wouldn\u2019t use in home cooking (assuming you don\u2019t keep a jar of lecithin or E471 in your kitchen cupboards), you\u2019re likely holding a UPF.<\/p>\n<p>So, which foods in the supermarket are considered ultra-processed, and are all UPFs harmful to our health? Put your knowledge to the test in our quiz.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: Some brands make less processed versions of popular UPFs, but we\u2019ve focused on the everyday products you\u2019ll find on supermarket shelves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With recent studies finding that ultra-processed foods (UPFs) could be putting our health at risk \u2013 and even&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[102,6636,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-32064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-nutrition","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}