Ultra-processed foods may contribute to cognitive decline
Oof, what exactly is &quot;ultra processed food&quot;, because as far as I can tell it&#x27;s &quot;whatever seems bad&quot;.<p>How much &quot;processing&quot; a potato chip gets (slice, fry, salt) is a whole lot different than one of the meat substitute burgers.<p>It seems like anything done on an industrial scale is evil and anything done in your kitchen is fine, despite the two being very similar in many cases.<p>Either there&#x27;s a problem with specific ingredients or people are just getting very poor nutrition by eating diets very heavy in fortified grain based foods and the &quot;daily value&quot; suggestions for micronutrients aren&#x27;t being appropriately satisfied by the vitamin powder they put in these foods or the list of requirements is missing many things.<p>Studies like this aren&#x27;t so helpful because they don&#x27;t actually point to anything specific.  We need to find actual mechanisms not vague hints at what might be wrong.