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Maternal consumption of ultra-processed foods and newborn exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2021
: Evolving evidence shows that ultra-processed food consumption may increase exposure to chemicals used in food packaging and production, such as per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, phthalates, and bisphenols.
Nathalia Ferrazzo Naspolini, Priscila Pereira Machado, Josino Costa Moreira, Carmen Ildes Rodrigues Fróes Asmus, Armando Meyer   +4 more
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Ultra-Processed Food Availability and Sociodemographic Associated Factors in a Brazilian Municipality

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
The availability of ultra-processed foods in a municipality tends to be related to different types of food retailers and their location in the territory, besides social, economic, and demographic factors.
Patricia Serafim, Camila Aparecida Borges, William Cabral-Miranda, Patricia Constante Jaime   +3 more
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Machine learning prediction of the degree of food processing

Nature Communications, 2023
Despite the accumulating evidence that increased consumption of ultra-processed food has adverse health implications, it remains difficult to decide what constitutes processed food.
Giulia Menichetti, Babak Ravandi, Dariush Mozaffarian, Albert-László Barabási   +3 more
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Socio-economic difference in purchases of ultra-processed foods in Australia: an analysis of a nationally representative household grocery purchasing panel

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2022
Background Consumption of ultra-processed foods is associated with increased risk of obesity and non-communicable diseases. Little is known about current patterns of ultra-processed foods intake in Australia.
Daisy H. Coyle, Liping Huang, Maria Shahid, Allison Gaines, Gian Luca Di Tanna, Jimmy Chun Yu Louie, Xiongfei Pan, Matti Marklund, Bruce Neal, Jason H. Y. Wu   +9 more
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Description and evaluation of an ultra-processed food consumption score for children [PDF]

Revista de Saúde Pública
OBJECTIVE To present a screener for consumption of ultra-processed foods for children in early childhood, evaluating the ability of the score generated by this screener to reflect the participation of ultra-processed foods in children’s diets. METHODS
Anna Müller, Caroline dos Santos Costa, Romina Buffarini, Juliana dos Santos Vaz, Marlos Rodrigues Domingues, Pedro Curi Hallal, Janaina Vieira dos Santos Motta   +6 more
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Association between ultra-processed food consumption and the nutrient profile of the Colombian diet in 2005

Salud Pública de México, 2019
Objective. To evaluate the consumption of ultra-processed food and drink products and its association with the nutri­ent profile of the Colombian diet in 2005. Materials and methods.
Diana C Parra, Maria Laura da Costa-Louzada, Jean-Claude Moubarac, Renata Bertazzi-Levy, Neha Khandpur, Gustavo Cediel, Carlos A Monteiro   +6 more
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Ultra-processed food consumption and body mass index from adolescence to early adulthood: multi-trajectory analysis using data from the 1993 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort [PDF]

Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Given the evidence linking ultra-processed food consumption to adverse health outcomes and the lack of longitudinal studies jointly addressing ultra-processed food consumption and body mass index (BMI), this study identified multi-trajectory groups from ...
Michele Krüger Vaz Moreira, Adriana Kramer Fiala Machado, Ana Maria Baptista Menezes, Helen Gonçalves, Fernando C. Wehrmeister   +4 more
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Ultra-processed food consumption and exposure to phthalates and bisphenols in the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2013–2014

Environment International, 2019
Background: Ultra-processed food has low nutritional quality, is associated with development of chronic diseases, and may increase exposure to chemicals used in food packaging and production.
Jessie P. Buckley, Hyunju Kim, Eugenia Wong, Casey M. Rebholz   +3 more
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Characterizing Ultra-Processed Foods by Energy Density, Nutrient Density, and Cost

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2019
Background: The NOVA food classification scheme divides foods into ultra-processed, processed, unprocessed, and culinary ingredients. Ultra-processed foods contribute >60% of energy to diets in the US.Objective: To characterize ultra-processed foods ...
Shilpi Gupta, Terry Hawk, Anju Aggarwal, Adam Drewnowski   +3 more
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Food Processing and Phthalate Exposure: The Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan (1993–1996 and 2005–2008)

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2021
Background: Phthalates esters are widely used commercially and can leach from a food container or food packaging. Few studies have been conducted in Asia regarding food processed to varying levels and human phthalate exposure.
Yi-Chen Huang, Pei-Ru Huang, Yuan-Ting C. Lo, Chien-Wen Sun, Wen-Harn Pan, Shu-Li Wang, Shu-Li Wang, Han-Bin Huang   +7 more
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