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Our new paper about UPF is published today in @BMJMedicine - we show the proportion of UPF products which are high in fat, sugar and salt compared to UK government guidance (spoiler alert - it's a lot).View quoted post on X
This is important because so much of the discussion around UPF has focused on whether ALL of it is unhealthy or whether we should just worry about a few categories of products.
So we took a database of products and asked two simple questions:
1. What proportion of Ultra Processed Food products are high in sugar, salt, saturated fat and energy according to UK dietary guidance?
2. What proportion of UPF is defined as 'unhealthy' by the two existing classification systems that we use to define unhealthy food,
- Front of Pack Traffic Lights and
- the HFSS definition (High Fat, Sugar, Salt)?
Here's what we did, and what we found...🧵
bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/5/1/e0…
Today an LLM hallucination resulted in 72 eggs being delivered to my house. 🥚🥚🥚🥚View quoted post on X
