Chemicals produced as the body converts ultra-processed food and drink into energy can be found in people’s blood and urine, researchers reported Tuesday in the journal PLOS Medicine. Adobe stock
May 21 (UPI) — Worried you’re scarfing down too many ultra-processed foods?
Blood and urine tests might be able to reveal how much of your diet is made up of industrially produced foods, a new study says.
Chemicals produced as the body converts ultra-processed food and drink into energy can be found in people’s blood and urine, researchers reported Tuesday in the journal PLOS Medicine.
Certain sets of these chemicals, known as metabolites, reliably correspond with how much ultra-processed food a person is eating, researchers found.
Scores based on these metabolites, “predictive of ultra-processed food intake, could…