ArticleNutrients2022
Greater Ultra-Processed Food Intake during Pregnancy and Postpartum Is Associated with Multiple Aspects of Lower Diet Quality.
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- 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
- Unhealthy Diets, Unhealthy Futures: How Modern Eating Patterns Endanger Maternal and Offspring Health.Nutrients · 2026Review
- The Association Between Periconceptional Consumption of Ultra-Processed Food and the Incidence of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Healthy Eating Is More than the Foods You Eat: Eating Practices of Mothers with and Without a History of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Type 2 Diabetes Risk Perception and Health Behaviors Among Women with History of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Retrospective Analysis.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Adherence to Indonesia's Dietary Guidelines Among Lactating Women: Insights for Policy and Practice.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Association Between Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods and Adiposity Measures in Lactating Women.Food science & nutrition · 2025Article
- Ultra-processed food intake, diet quality, and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional analysis from the Mutaba'ah study.Nutrition & metabolism · 2025Article
- The Role of Social Determinants of Health in Childhood Epilepsy.Turkish archives of pediatrics · 2025Article
- How Cognition Influences Chinese Residents' Continuous Purchasing Intention of Prepared Dishes under the Distributed Cognitive Perspective.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Dietary branched-chain amino acids intake and new-onset hypertension: a nationwide prospective cohort study in China.Amino acids · 2024Article
- Ultra-Processed Foods, Diet Quality and Human Health.Nutrients · 2023Article
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- Maternal Pea Protein Intake Provides Sex-Specific Protection against Dyslipidemia in Offspring from Obese Pregnancies.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Impact of Ultra-Processed Food Consumption on Quality of Diet among Brazilian Pregnant Women Assisted in Primary Health Care.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Ultra-processed food consumption and associations with biomarkers of nutrition and inflammation in pregnancy: The Norwegian Environmental Biobank.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
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Abstract
Low diet quality during pregnancy and postpartum is associated with numerous adverse maternal and infant health outcomes. This study examined relations of ultra-processed food intake with diet quality during pregnancy and postpartum. Using data from 24-h recalls, ultra-processed food intake was operationalized as percent energy intake from NOVA-classified ultra-processed foods; diet quality was measured using Healthy Eating Index 2015 (HEI) total and component scores. Pearson correlations examined associations of ultra-processed food intake with HEI total and component scores, and food group intake was compared across four levels of ultra-processed food intake. On average, ultra-processed food comprised 52.6 ± 15.1% (mean ± SD) of energy intake in pregnancy and 50.6 ± 16.6% in postpartum. Ultra-processed food intake was inversely correlated with HEI total and 8 of 13 component scores. Compared to participants with the highest ultra-processed food intake (≥60% energy), those with the lowest ultra-processed food intake (<40% energy) had a 17.6-point higher HEI total score and consumed 2−3 times more fruit, vegetables, and seafood and plant proteins, and 1½ times more total protein. Additionally, they consumed 2/3 as much refined grains and 1/2 as much added sugar. Greater ultra-processed food intake was associated with lower diet quality across most HEI components. Reducing ultra-processed food intake may broadly improve adherence to dietary guidelines in pregnant and postpartum populations.
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