ultra-processed
Adjective
Meaning
ultra-processed (comparative more ultra-processed, superlative most ultra-processed)
Very heavily processed.
ultra-processed food
Examples
"Among them are ever-rising levels of ultra-processed foods and unhealthy carbs; increasing portion size; grazing between meals and mindless eating while we’re not concentrating on our food.
Poor diet is a major cause behind the COVID-19 deaths and the Indians must urgently cut down on ultra-processed food to build resilience against the deadly virus, a leading Indian-origin cardiologist in the UK has cautioned.
The ads seem to imply that not only is a faux burger an “ultra-processed” patty, but that it might be junk food that is even junkier than the average beef burger.
Foods consisted of more than 3,000 widely consumed dietitian-analyzed items, ranging from fresh and unprocessed foods to minimally processed (canned vegetables) and ultra-processed products (fish sticks, chicken nuggets, cookies, and sweetened drinks).
Researchers consider all of them to be ultra-processed foods.
The FDA found in random testing that in general those peanut butters have a higher aflatoxin content than the "ultra-processed" varieties that we generally think of.