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by rpdillon 249 days ago
Seems to be because the definition is arbitrarily shaped to fit the agendas of whoever is writing the definition. UPFs seem like the screen time of the 2020s -- an overly vague and mostly useless definition borne out of hysteria around a real issue in how people eat.

Arbitrarily defining foods that have artificial sweeteners as suddenly being ultra-processed is not coherent.