Ultra-processed products are becoming dominant in the global food system

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2013-11

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John Wiley & Sons

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The paper argues that the driving force shaping the global food system is transnational food manufacturing, retailing, and fast food service corporations: businesses based on very profitable, heavily promoted ultra-processed “food” often in snack form, associated with obesity and cardiovascular diseases. It examines trends in the purchase and sale of ultra-processed food products in high- and middle-income countries, with special attention to Canada and Brazil. Ultra-processing creates attractive, hyper-palatable, cheap, ready-to-consume food products that are characteristically energy-dense, fatty, sugary or salty and generally obesogenic.

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ULTRA-PROCESSED PRODUCTS, NUTRITION, FOOD ADDITIVES, CANADA, BRAZIL, FOOD INDUSTRY, TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS, GLOBAL HEALTH, NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, DISEASE PREVENTION, SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH, OBESITY, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

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Monteiro, C.A., Moubarac, J.C., Cannon, G., Ng, S.W., & Popkin, B. (2013). Ultra-processed products are becoming dominant in the global food system. Obesity Reviews, 14(Suppl. 2), 21-28.doi:10.1111/obr.12107

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http://hdl.handle.net/10625/52199

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