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Next time you're at the supermarket, pick up some packaged foods and look over the ingredient list. You'll start to notice a lot of

the same things, high levels of salt and fat.

Added sugars, added colorings, added flavorings, hydrolyzed protein isolates, high fructose corn, syrup, bulking agents like

maltodextrin for instance.

These are all sort of the types of ingredients you'd see in on ultra processed food.

Carajinin, you know, those kinds of things.

That's Maria Gedoy, a health correspondent at NPR.

She's been reporting on the health effects of ultra-processed industrially made foods.

These are foods that are made with ingredients derived from foods and then you reassemble

them to create a product that's tasty, cheap, convenient, and shelf stable, which means they last a long time.

They tend to have a lot of additives like the ones we mentioned earlier.

You might find things like

emulsifiers and stabilizers and these are ingredients used to improve the

texture of the foods and make them taste better, which also can help make them harder to resist so we them

harder to resist so we tend to overeat them.

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