3 UPF Definitions

Question 1

What is the NOVA system?

Answer 1

It classifies food by the amount and type of processing.

Question 2

Where was it developed?

Answer 2

Brazil

Question 3

What is the first category?

Answer 3

un- or minimally- processed food

whole foods but also flour and pasta

Question 4

What is the second group?

Answer 4

Processed culinary ingredients

Question 5

Such as?

Answer 5

traditional oils, lard, butter, vinegar honey, starches

Question 6

How nutritious are Group 2 foods?

Answer 6

Not very, but they are normally combined with Group 1 foods to make them tastier.

Group2 is calorie dense and nutrient poor

Question 7

What is Group 3?

Answer 7

Processed foods.

Question 8

What are processed foods?

Answer 8

They are foods made with Group 1 and Group 2

Question 9

Examples?

Answer 9

Salted nuts, smoked meat, canned fruits and “proper” bread

Question 10

What is Group 4?

Answer 10

Ultra-processed foods

Question 11

What are UPFs?

Answer 11

Made up of industrial ingredients requiring sophisticated technology.

Turned into food fractions

Question 12

What else?

Answer 12

Fractioning of whole foods and chemically modifying those substances.

Question 13

Examples of foods to which this is done?

Answer 13

Corn and soy

Question 14

What are they turned into?

Answer 14

oil, protein and starch

Question 15

Then how are the oils modified?

Answer 15

Refined, bleached, deodorized, hydrogenated, interesterified

Question 16

What do they do to the starch?

Answer 16

modify

Question 17

What do they do to the protein?

Answer 17

Hydrolize

Question 18

What then happens to the modified food fractions?

Answer 18

Combined with additives then molded or extruded

Question 19

What is the corporate goal for UPFs?

Answer 19

Maximize profits by minimizing costs, ↑ shelf life, create branding and make foods hyper-palatable

THey intend for these foods to replace the other groups

Question 20

In the UK, what percentage of calories consumed are UPFs?

Answer 20

60%

Question 21

How many centimeters in a foot?

Answer 21

approximately 30

Question 22

How many pounds in a kilogram?

Answer 22

1 kilogram = 2.2 pounds

Question 23

What is nutritionalism?

Answer 23

Categorizing a food by measurable components.

calories, vitamins, etc.

Question 24

What do you need to watch for in nutrition labelling?

Answer 24

Serving size

Question 25

Why?

Answer 25

UPFs are designed to make you eat more than one serving

Question 26

What did Nutrition Science study originally?

Answer 26

Studying diseases of deficiency

scurvy, pellagra (B3)

Question 27

Which supplements work for healthy people?

Answer 27

None

Question 28

What are studies beginning to show?

Answer 28

That UPFs increase risk of many bad health outcomes.

Question 29

Is it just the UPF components?

Answer 29

Yes. Some studies can isolate that from the general poor nutition of UPFs.

Question 30

What do UPFs increase the risk of?

Answer 30

Obesity, death (all-mortality), heart disease, cancers (particularly breast), type 2 diabetes, dementia