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How is flour and meat 'ultra-processed foods? Yes, the wheat and tomato's are processed but...
Ultra-processed foods are a category of packaged foods that have been through the most changes from their original state. Ultra-processed foods generally contain additives, preservatives and other substances extracted from foods. They've been linked to cancer and heart disease, among other conditions.

Examples of ultra-processed foods include ice cream, ham, bacon, sausages, crisps, mass-produced bread, breakfast cereals, biscuits, carbonated drinks, fruit-flavoured yogurts, instant soups, and some alcoholic drinks including whisky, gin, and rum.
 
Ultra-processed foods are a category of packaged foods that have been through the most changes from their original state. Ultra-processed foods generally contain additives, preservatives and other substances extracted from foods. They've been linked to cancer and heart disease, among other conditions.

Examples of ultra-processed foods include ice cream, ham, bacon, sausages, crisps, mass-produced bread, breakfast cereals, biscuits, carbonated drinks, fruit-flavoured yogurts, instant soups, and some alcoholic drinks including whisky, gin, and rum.
By in large, it is not the processing (a grossly misused word) that is dangerous, especially when multiple additives, preservatives or colorants are used. For example, pulverizing wheat into flour does not change its content or DNA. Adding salt as a drying agent to meat and curing it does not change the meat. Of course, if that is the only meat you eat, your sodium levels are going to go through the roof (which was common before refrigeration was common). As for the cereals, drinks, yogurts, soups and such, I imagine the heavy use of artificial sweeteners and preservatives is a major contributor. Ah, the price we pay for convenience.
It is shocking to me how long a commercial brand loaf of bread will last these days. We buy our bread from the Amish and a loaf may last a week before starting to turn green.
This is where the conversation changes to GMO seeds and grains. It is getting harder to fine 'pure seed' nowadays. Good/bad? I am not smart enough to say. GMO does help feed the world, but it could be killing (at the individual level) as well.
 

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