This is the Guardian. This summer see the European box office smash that critics are raving about.

The count of Monte Cristo is timeless and thrillingly new.

Five-star says total film.

Rotten Tomatoes rates it at 100%.

It's a big exciting swashbuckling adventure, stunning a genuine triumph based on Alexander Dumas's classic tale.

A few accounts of Monte Cristo. The Count of Monte Cristo, in Cinemas now, Certificate 12A. Over the past decade or so, a change has been creeping its way into our diets.

At breakfast time, almost all of your breakfast cereal will be ultra processed.

Even the stuff that sold to you is weight loss and high fiber and vitamin enriched, almost all ultra processed.

Your yogurt at breakfast will be ultra processed.

It will have modified maize starch in it.

The normal everyday, often seemingly healthy foods we eat, aren't what they appear.

At lunch, there are sandwich shops that we will all recognize this

sell to us as kind of organic and real food. The bread in those

shops is all all contains emulsifiers, the sources contain dextrous and multidextrous.

It's all ultra-processed foods are everywhere, an inescapable part of modern life, a cheap, convenient way to eat.

And for dinner, when we cook our frozen food, our ready meals,

when we add sauces and condiments, that's all ultra processed too. But studies from around the world

suggest it could be driving the global obesity crisis and causing a range

of health conditions from depression to cancer. So what does it mean for a food to be ultra-processed?

How has this stuff taken over our diets?

And what is it about ultra-processed foods that's such a problem?

From the Guardian I'm Madeline Finley and this is Science Weekly.

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