Consumption of Ultra-processed Foods Trending Down But Still High

Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are back in the news following the publication of two papers this year, both using dietary 24-hour recall data from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS). One paper compared the intake of UPFs and the nutrition profile of the diet between 2004 and 2015 (sample size of 33,924 for the 2004 survey and 20,080 for the 2015 survey; breastfeeding children excluded) (1). The other paper looked at a cross-section of the 2015 UPF consumption data (sample size of 13,608,...