ArticleNature food2025
Prevalence of processed foods in major US grocery stores.
Article in Nature food, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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23 citing papers in PubMed.
- Voucher for Healthy Foods and Diabetes Control: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA internal medicine · 2025Trial
- Metabolic and neural responses to ultraprocessed foods: a randomized, controlled, crossover study.Nature metabolism · 2026Article
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- Practical and Equity Considerations for Ultraprocessed Foods Policies.American journal of public health · 2026Article
- Leveraging large language models to maintain a branded food product database.NPJ science of food · 2026Article
- The hidden hand in retail: a qualitative analysis of how ultra-processed food companies shape consumer purchasing.BMC medicine · 2026Article
- A cognitive dissonance-based intervention to reduce ultra-processed food intake: Protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2026Article
- Artificial intelligence applications for assessing ultra-processed food consumption: a scoping review.The British journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- Mapping regional disparities in discounted grocery products.NPJ science of food · 2026Article
- A metabolite index of ultra-processed food intake is associated with stroke, cancer mortality, and all-cause mortality.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Revisiting food addiction in the era of GLP-1-based obesity pharmacotherapy via neural reward pathways linking feeding and substance use.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
- Large language models in food and nutrition science: Opportunities, challenges, and the case of FoodyLLM.Current research in food science · 2026Article
- Translating nutrition science into national policy: comparative assessment of the 2025-2030 U. S. Dietary Guidelines and the Italian Mediterranean-based guidelines.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
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- Ultra-Processed Food and Frailty: Evidence from a Prospective Cohort Study and Implications for Future Research.Nutrients · 2025Article
- AI for food: accelerating and democratizing discovery and innovation.NPJ science of food · 2025Review
- Informatics for Food Processing.ArXiv · 2025Article
- Health impacts of exposure to synthetic chemicals in food.Nature medicine · 2025Review
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- A Pilot Study of a Novel Dietary Intervention Targeting Ultra-Processed Food Intake.Obesity science & practice · 2024Article
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Abstract
The offering of grocery stores is a strong driver of consumer decisions. While highly processed foods such as packaged products, processed meat and sweetened soft drinks have been increasingly associated with unhealthy diets, information on the degree of processing characterizing an item in a store is not straightforward to obtain, limiting the ability of individuals to make informed choices. GroceryDB, a database with over 50,000 food items sold by Walmart, Target and Whole Foods, shows the degree of processing of food items and potential alternatives in the surrounding food environment. The extensive data gathered on ingredient lists and nutrition facts enables a large-scale analysis of ingredient patterns and degrees of processing, categorized by store, food category and price range. Furthermore, it allows the quantification of the individual contribution of over 1,000 ingredients to ultra-processing. GroceryDB makes this information accessible, guiding consumers toward less processed food choices.
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