The key takeaways?
Some ultra-processed foods can be linked to bad health outcomes, but all processed food shouldn't be tarred with the same brush.
Frozen vegetables, pasteurised milk or boiled potatoes, for example, can be better for us than their unprocessed counterparts.
As long as we can recognise a processed food as being close to its natural form, having them in our diet may even be good for us.
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