Ultra-Processed Foods in Human and Planetary Health
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Security and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 336
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are defined as formulations of food-derived substances (e.g., fats, sugars, starch, and protein isolates) that contain little, if any, whole food and include classes of additives whose function is to make the final product palatable or more appealing (‘cosmetic additives’), such as colours, flavours, and emulsifiers. The impact of the production and consumption of ultra-processed foods on human and planetary health has been acknowledged and has started to gather global attention more recently. Because UPFs have become dominant components in the diets of populations worldwide, there is an urgent need to scrutinise the human health, sustainability, and food environment impacts across a range of populations and country contexts, as well as to understand the implications of their consumption for health inequalities. This Special Issue aims to showcase original research articles, reviews, method articles, and policy reviews on the impacts of ultra-processed foods on health, inequalities, sustainability, and the food environment.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Tools to evaluate the consumption of ultra-processed foods in the population;
- Relationships between the consumption of ultra-processed foods and markers of health status;
- Ultra-processed foods and nutritional labelling;
- Impacts of ultra-processed foods on food environments;
- Impacts of ultra-processed foods on sustainability;
- Relationships between the consumption of ultra-processed foods and social determinants;
- Corporate political activity of the ultra-processed food industry.
Dr. Pham Van Hung
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ultra-processed food
- non-communicable diseases
- sustainable
- food environment
- inequality
- health
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