ReviewNature food2022
Nutrition research challenges for processed food and health.
Review in Nature food, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.
- Eating rate has sustained effects on energy intake from ultraprocessed diets: a 2-week ad libitum dietary randomized controlled crossover trial.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Trial
- The Purpose of Food Processing and Ultra-Processed Food: the Potential, Pitfalls and Path Forward for Public Health.Current nutrition reports · 2026Review
- Guiding Principles for Science-Based Food Classification Systems Focused on Processing and Formulation.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Review
- Separating Myths From Facts About Bread and Health.Nutrition bulletin · 2026Review
- The Future of Food Processing-A Food Science and Technology Perspective. Proceedings of a Roundtable Event.Nutrition bulletin · 2026Article
- The Effect of Eating Rate of Ultra-Processed Foods on Dietary Intake, Eating Behaviour, Body Composition and Metabolic Responses-Rationale, Design and Outcomes of the Restructure Randomised Controlled Trial.Nutrition bulletin · 2025Article
- Toward Multidimensional Front-of-Pack Labels: Integrating Nutritional, Environmental, and Processing Information.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Informatics for Food Processing.ArXiv · 2025Article
- Defining the role of processing in food classification systems-the IUFoST formulation & processing approach.NPJ science of food · 2025Article
- Prevalence of processed foods in major US grocery stores.Nature food · 2025Article
- Eighty-five percent of menu items from the six highest selling fast-food restaurants in the USA are ultra-processed.Public health nutrition · 2025Article
- GroceryDB: Prevalence of Processed Food in Grocery Stores.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Definitions of ultra-processed foods beyond NOVA: a systematic review and evaluation.Food & nutrition research · 2025Review
- Analyzing bacterial networks and interactions in skin and gills of Sparus aurata with microalgae-based additive feeding.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Uncovering a New Concept of Foodnality in Diet Recommendations for Chinese Aging Populations Based on Systematic and Bibliometric Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- The Role of Behavioral Factors on Chronic Diseases-Practice and Knowledge Gaps.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- Decoding the Foodome: Molecular Networks Connecting Diet and Health.Annual review of nutrition · 2024Review
- Ultra-processed Food and Obesity: What Is the Evidence?Current nutrition reports · 2024Review
- On the value of food systems research.Nature food · 2024Article
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Existing highly processed food (HPF) classification systems show large differences in the impact of these foods on biochemical risk factors for disease. If public health nutrition is to consider the degree of food processing as an important element of the link between food and health, certain gaps in research must be acknowledged. Quantifying the food additive exposure derived from HPFs is a task made challenging by the lack of data available on the occurrence and concentration of additives in food and the degree to which the natural occurrence of additives in unprocessed foods confounds exposure estimates. The proposed role of HPFs in health outcomes could also be associated with altered nutrient profiles. Differences exist within and between HPF classification systems in this regard and there are conflicting data on the impact of controlling for nutrient intake. Furthermore, research is needed on how the sensory aspects of HPFs contribute to energy intake. Current data suggest that high energy intake rate may be the mechanism linking HPFs and increased energy intake. A high priority now is to clarify the basis of definitions used to categorize foods as highly processed and, in a constructive sense, to distinguish between the contributions of nutrients, additives and sensory properties to health.
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