What’s the Best Way to “Unprocess” Your Diet?
Ready meals, instant noodles, frozen chips, oven-ready pizzas — we all know we shouldn’t be so reliant on convenience foods. But who has the time to cook every meal from scratch? Certainly not many of my clients who know they should be cutting back on ultra-processed foods (UPFs) for the sake of their health but find it very hard to do so in practice.
It doesn’t help that UPFs have infiltrated our shopping baskets by stealth, in all manner of unexpected guises from packaged bread (including wholemeal and granary) to shop-bought sandwiches, fruit-flavoured yoghurts and ‘healthy’ snack bars.
With so many ultra-processed products now on the shelves, healthy food shopping for the family has become a minefield and it was as a mother of two young children, as well as a dietitian with more than 15 years’ experience, that I decided this was an area I urgently needed to investigate.
Excerpted from the Daily Mail
