{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"No Forking Nonsense - The Nutritionist UK","title":"Are ultra processed foods bad for you? UPFs, fact checked","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":733,"description":"FREE MEAL DEAL HACKS/ SURVIVAL GUIDE HERE>>> https://mealdeal.carrd.co/\n\nYour wholemeal bread is an ultra processed food.\nSo is most shop-bought hummus, a lot of baked beans, and nearly every protein bar in the country.\nIf that sounds mad to you, that’s the problem with how this has been reported.\nUPFs have gone from a research classification nobody had heard of to the thing everyone’s frightened of, and somewhere in the middle a lot of nonsense got attached to it. So this week I go through what the evidence actually says, what it doesn’t, and where the headlines have run well ahead of the research.\nNo scaremongering, no clean eating sermon, and no telling you to make your own bread.\nIn this episode:\nWhat ultra processed actually means, and why the definition catches foods you’d never expect\nWhere the panic came from, and why the classification was never designed to do the job it’s being used for\nThe difference between “linked to” and “causes”, and why nearly every scary headline you’ve read relies on you not knowing it\nThe one study people quote constantly, what it genuinely showed, and what it didn’t\nWhy the processing probably isn’t the thing doing the damage\nThe foods on the list that are perfectly fine, and the ones genuinely worth cutting back\nWhat to actually do with your weekly shop on Monday morning\nInstagram: @paulthenutritionist.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/OrKGtLZblvV2vo8ljmzlXnwMX8LWVdWaLdw4xca1njY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iNmI5/YmVmNjMwZThmM2Yw/YzZiNzc2MDliZmYy/NzdjMi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}