Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.

How's it going on, everyone? Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and in this episode, we are going to be discussing processed food.

So what we're going to do is we're going to define what processed foods mean.

We're going to discuss the different levels of processing and the different classifications

for processed food, going from unprocessed food to minimally processed food to ultra-processed

food. We'll discuss what all of those mean. And then we'll discuss the research on the relationship between processed food consumption

and health outcomes. So we'll discuss what that looks like, what the studies show, and what that

actually means for your health. Do we need to avoid processed foods? This is something that we really need to pay attention to in terms of our total consumption.

Before we get started, I want to remind you all that we recorded an episode last week

on saturated fat and health.

So if that's a topic that you're interested in and you haven't listened to that show,

I recommend checking that out.

Check it out after this podcast or before whatever floats your boat.

But I highly recommend checking that out because we discussed a little bit more about

different types of saturated fats, whether or not there's an increased risk of cardiovascular

disease with saturated fat consumption and a lot more.

So this topic is really controversial right now. A lot of people are promoting more saturated

fat consumption and saying that eating more is better. And I think it's important to understand

the nuance here so you can arm yourself against misleading information. With that said,

let's go ahead and jump into the content

that we're going to be discussing today, which is processed food. So let's go ahead and start by

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