Snack Makers Are Removing Fake Colors From Processed Foods. Story by Deena Shanker • 1mo (Bloomberg Businessweek) -- If a potato chip isn’t bright red, will people know it’s spicy?

Ultra-processed foods are linked to serious health risks like heart disease, obesity, and gut issues, according to experts.

“Processed, if you really want to look at it from a food perspective, means highly artificial and very little nutritional value,” said Peter McGuinness, chief executive of Impossible Foods.

The claim emerged from a study on plant-based “ultra-processed” foods by a team of nutrition researchers at the University of São Paulo and Imperial College London. Using data from a sample ...

The texture of many packaged foods plays a big role in driving people to eat more of them, new research shows ...

Dr Chris van Tulleken, who wrote the book on this with his 2023 bestseller Ultra-Processed People, told Metro: ‘We know that ultra-processed food causes – not just is associated with ...

There is mounting evidence suggesting that ultra processed foods (UPF) are bad for our health; but if you stick to a vegetarian diet, is that still the case? Plant-Based Meat Alternatives (PBMA ...

Among plant-based foods, ultra-processed ones are linked to higher risk of cardiovascular disease.A 2024 UK study that garnered much attention found that a 10% increase in caloric intake of plant ...

Processed plant-based meat alternatives linked to depression risk in vegetarians. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 12 / 241217131336.htm ...

They found that vegetarians who ate ultra-processed plant-based meat alternatives were 42 percent more likely to have depression, compared with vegetarians who stuck to whole food proteins, such ...

Snack Makers Are Removing Fake Colors From Processed Foods PepsiCo designed a new spicy potato chip without using its signature—and artificially formulated—dyes. Remaking the original Doritos ...