Let’s talk about removing Ultra-Processed Food

Ultra-processed food (UPF), is a relatively new food group, categorised as food that has undergone extensive processing often containing colourings, flavourings and emulsifiers. These are ingredients you wouldn’t generally find in your kitchen cupboard. If you read the label on a product and it has an extensive ingredient list, full of words you wouldn’t really recognise to be food, then its more than likely UPF. The chemical additives help to make the food more palatable; they manipulate texture and colour or provide a longer shelf-life and make the food addictive.

There is increasing evidence of how harmful UPF is to our mental and physical health and the damage its doing to our environment too. Here at Well-Fed we are absolutely committed to ensure everyone regardless of income or ability is able to eat good food that’s been cooked from scratch, either by us or by you at home.

Our The Mobile Shop or Well-Fed Hubs are great places where you can pick up affordable high quality ready meals or family recipe packs and join the UPF free revolution with us!!!

At present in the UK there is no agreed definition for UPF and they are not referred to in any government dietary recommendations, However, food classification, known as NOVA, classified foods into four groups. Anything in NOVA group 4 is UPF and should be avoided. NOVA 4 is heavily weighted around treats so don’t think you can never eat a cake again, simply try making your own treats such as cakes using whole food ingredients such as butter not margarine and use fresh fruits juices to make homemade ice lollies and other sweet treats.