Ultra Processed Food

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Welcome! This is a space for people who want to limit or eliminate ultra-processed foods (UPFs) from their diet.

Scientific research has shown strong links between the chemicals and additives used by major food corporations and a range of negative health outcomes, including:

Cancer
Type 2 Diabetes
Obesity
Mental health issues (like depression and anxiety)

This community is here to raise awareness, share resources, and support each other in choosing real, whole foods over heavily processed alternatives.

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New to this diet—spent substantially more time shopping today (just wanted hummus!) (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by squid_slime@lemm.ee to c/ultraprocessedfood@lemm.ee

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I’ve recently started cutting out ultra-processed foods after reading Ultra-Processed People, and today I really felt the difference while shopping.

At Waitrose (a UK supermarket, and not exactly a cheap one), I went looking for hummus. I checked the back of four different brands—every single one had rapeseed oil, stabilizers, or other additives. One even branded itself Extra Virgin Olive Oil Hummus… yet still listed rapeseed oil in the ingredients.

So I figured I’d make my own. I went to grab chickpeas, and even Waitrose’s own canned chickpeas had stabilizers. I finally found another brand—twice the price—that only had chickpeas and water.

Out of curiosity, I checked other products. I’ve been a bit obsessed with ice cream lately, since the book talks about it in detail. Not one of the five or so brands I looked at had just natural ingredients. Even the “cleanest” options had a long list of things I wouldn’t use at home.

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[–] knightly@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You owe it to yourself to pick up a soft serve machine to sate that ice cream obsession. Real homemade ice cream is so much better than that packaged slop.

[–] squid_slime@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

that thought had crossed my mind while writing this post! one day.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm glad you made this sub. It's great to see more activity around human nutrition.

I've been doing single ingredient foods for almost a year now and have seen massive health improvements.

[–] squid_slime@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I read Ultra Processed People and felt duty bound. And well done you'd probably have a lot to say about it all, feel free to post tips and tricks, recipes, articles or whatever you feel can help like minded people 😁

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I've been outraged at how totally wrong the ultra-processed lifestyle is. It's so ubiquitous it feels normal, and not having factory food makes me feel like the outcast.

I'm so glad I found this way of eating and living!