What alternatives are there to ultra-processed foods?
Preparing meals and snacks from scratch with unprocessed or minimally processed ingredients is ideal, but for most of us this simply isn’t possible all the time. The good news is that there are non-UPF versions of many UPFs – these products are processed rather than ultra-processed.
Many organic versions of common UPFs, such as tins of baked beans and non-dairy milk alternatives, are not ultra-processed. For example, most ready-meal lasagne is a UPF but Tesco and Marks & Spencer both sell versions that are processed but not ultra-processed, and both score B for