This open-source database utilizes machine learning to assess food processing, promoting nutrition security and informed consumer choices in the grocery market.

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GroceryDB helps shoppers spot ultra-processed foods

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Easy ways to eat fewer ultra-processed foods, according to an expert

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Fourteen years ago, Michael Pollan offered us Food Rules; today, researchers armed with machine learning and 50,000 grocery items are trying to turn Pollan’s “wisdom” into science. The findings suggest your shopping cart is less a Whole Foods utopia and more an ultra-processed dystopia.

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"From 'Food Rules' to Food Reality: Machine Learning Unveils the Ultra-Processed Truth in Our Grocery Carts"

Ultra-processed foods are those that, as their name suggests, undergo several processing steps and contain a series of chemical ingredients, such as additives, preservatives, dyes, artificial flavors, and others. Therefore, when consumed in excess, they can pose health risks. Although most industrialized products are ultra-processed, not all foods produced in factories go through all these processing steps or have chemical additives.

Alimentos ultraprocessados são aqueles que, como o próprio nome sugere, passam por diversas etapas de processamento e contêm uma série de ingredientes químicos, como aditivos, conservantes, corantes, aromatizantes artificiais, entre outros. Por isso, quando consumidos em excesso, podem trazer riscos à saúde. Apesar de grande parte dos produtos industrializados ser ultraprocessados, nem todos os alimentos produzidos em fábricas passam por todas e…

GroceryDB helps shoppers spot ultra-processed foods

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