>Some foods are highly processed or ultra-processed. They most likely have many added ingredients such as sugar, salt, fat, and artificial colors or preservativ

>Some foods are highly processed or ultra-processed. They most likely have many added ingredients such as sugar, salt, fat, and artificial colors or preservatives. Ultra-processed foods are made mostly from substances extracted from foods, such as fats, starches, added sugars, and hydrogenated fats. They may also contain additives like artificial colors and flavors or stabilizers. Examples of these foods are frozen meals, soft drinks, hot dogs and cold cuts, fast food, packaged cookies, cakes, and salty snacks. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/what-are-ultra-processed-foods-and-are-they-bad-for-our-health-2020010918605 https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/what-are-ultra-processed... Simpler than that, generally speaking if you can look at the thing you are ingesting and identify what it was in nature it is likely unprocessed or minimally processed. Corn on the cob is unprocessed. Canned corn or corn meal is minimally processed. High fructose corn syrup (and any substance containing it) is ultra-processed. Even simpler than that, if what you are eating comes out of a machine that looks like this: https://www.starchprojectsolution.com/uploads/1805/2-1P505161FHV.jpg https://www.starchprojectsolution.com/uploads/1805/2-1P50516... it is almost certainly bad for you.