Some pre-packaged foods, such as pasta and rice, are staples that many of us eat as part of a balanced diet. Others, such as crisps and sugary snacks, are clearly not health foods. But for some packaged and processed foods, the claims on the label can make it hard to decide what's healthy and what isn't.
With a recent study showing diets high in ultraprocessed foods increase the risk of more than 30 health outcomes (including cardiovascular disease and mental ill-health), the level of processing