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Hi this is Your Health Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series. We bring you the latest vital health news.

Discoveries that affect your body and your mind.

And we break down the medical research to help you stay healthy.

I'm Tanya Lewis.

I'm Josh Fishman.

We're Scientific American senior health editors.

On today's show, we're talking about ultra-processed foods, what they are, whether they're bad

for you, and why it's so hard to study their effects. I don't know about you Josh but I'm a big fan of ice cream. I often eat cereal for breakfast sometimes with a bit of fruit yogurt and I enjoy a good gin cocktail. What do you think all these foods have in common? Wait a minute, you're actually giving me a pop quiz?

Yes, I am.

But there are so many different right answers here.

All those foods have a lot of sugar in one form or another. They've all been linked to poor health.

And they all have fruit as an ingredient, even the gin. Which one are you looking for?

Well, the answer I was looking for was actually that they're all ultra-processed.

Oh, yeah, of course. But what exactly is ultra-processed? And how does it differ from processed food? Is it bad for you? Well here to answer some of these questions

for us is our editorial intern, Lori Yumsha Jekian. She's writing a news story about

ultra processed foods. Lori, welcome to your health quickly.

Thanks for having me.

Hey there, Lori.

So Lori, I've heard of processed foods before,

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