SynthesisFrontiers in nutrition2022
Impacts of Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods on the Maternal-Child Health: A Systematic Review.
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- Malnutrition in Children with Congenital Zika Virus Syndrome: A Systematic Review.Maternal and child health journal · 2026Pooled it
- Ultra-processed Food Intake During Pregnancy and its Impact on Maternal Diet Quality and Weight Change: A Systematic Review of Observational Studies.Current nutrition reports · 2024Pooled it
- Maternal Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods-Rich Diet and Perinatal Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Effect of dietary and lifestyle intervention in pregnant women: randomized clinical trial.Revista de saude publica · 2025Trial
- Maternal Diet During Pregnancy and Offspring Health: Current Evidence on Dietary Patterns, Microbiota, and Developmental Programming.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Unhealthy Diets, Unhealthy Futures: How Modern Eating Patterns Endanger Maternal and Offspring Health.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Tracking of dietary patterns from early childhood to school age in the Brazilian Food and Nutritional Surveillance System, 2008-2019.Public health nutrition · 2026Article
- Nitrogen Balance and Protein Quality Ingestion in Pregnant Women: Characterizing a Nutritional Scenario in a Pilot Study in Mexico.Food science & nutrition · 2026Article
- Healthy Diet Metrics for Children and Adolescents and Their Suitability for Global Monitoring: A Critical Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Review
- Associations between food deserts, food swamps, and ultra-processed food intake in childhood.Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2026Article
- Perspective: Food Environment, Climate Change, Inflammation, Diet, and Health.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Review
- Driving Research and Advocacy for Healthy Infant and Toddler Diets: The Infant and Toddler Foods Research Alliance.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Association Between Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods and Adiposity Measures in Lactating Women.Food science & nutrition · 2025Article
- Biocultural Determinants of Mothers' Complementary Feeding Decisions in the Urban Brazilian Amazon.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2025Article
- How to evaluate ultra-processed food intake in pediatrics? UPF score: an easy alternative.BMC nutrition · 2025Article
- Association of Maternal Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods with Feeding Practices and Malnutrition in Breastfed Infants: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Impact of Maternal Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Preterm Birth on the Development of Metabolic Disorders in Offspring.Journal of pediatrics, perinatology and child health · 2025Article
- Systems biology to unravel Western diet-associated triggers in inflammatory bowel disease.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Vitamin D and LC-PUFA and the Presence of Fetal Heart Defects-A Further Part of a Case-Control Study.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Evaluating the impact of the universal infant free school meal policy on the ultra-processed food content of children's lunches in England and Scotland: a natural experiment.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background and Aims: Changes in eating patterns have been leading to an increase in the consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPF), negatively impacting the quality of the diet and generating risk of harm to the health of the adult population, however, there is no systematized evidence of the impact of UPF in maternal-child health. Thus, in this study we aimed to evaluated the association between UPF consumption and health outcomes in the maternal-child population. Methods: Systematic review registered on the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) (CRD42021236633), conducted according to the PRISMA diagram in the following databases: PubMed, Medline, Scopus, Web of Science, Scielo, and CAPES thesis and dissertation directory. We included original cross-sectional, case-control and cohort studies in any language. Eligibility criteria were (a) food consumption assessment by the NOVA classification, (b) health outcome (nutritional or diseases), and (c) maternal-child population (pregnant, lactating women and infants/children). All data were analyzed and extracted to a spreadsheet structured by two independent reviewers. We evaluated the methodological quality of the studies included using the Newcastle-Otawa Scale and RoB 2. Results: Searches retrieved 7,801 studies and 15 contemplated the eligibility criteria. Most studies included were cohort studies ( Conclusion: Despite the limited literature on UPF consumption and health outcomes in the maternal-child population, the highest UPF consumption negatively impacted nutrition and disease development indicators in pregnant, lactating women and children. Considering the expressive participation of these foods in the diet, other studies should be conducted to further investigate the impact of UPF consumption on different health indicators, especially in the lactation phase for this was the one to present the most important knowledge gap. Systematic Review Registration: [https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42021236633], identifier [CRD42021236633].
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