Podcast: I tried to give up ultra-processed foods — here's what happened 

As a new study links premature deaths to consuming large amounts of ultra-processed food (UPF), Nicole Glennon asks the experts how worried we should really be about these foods — and how feasible is it to eliminate them? 

Nicole Glennon challenged herself to eliminate all ultra-processed foods from her diet for one week.

I am staring at the ingredients list of a chicken wrap. It has more than 40, half of which I can’t identify.

Additives, emulsifiers, E numbers, and acidity regulators are all listed before I get to what I would have assumed was the main ingredient — chicken. And, as you’ll know if you studied home economics in secondary school, ingredients on food labels must be listed in descending order of weight.