Research
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Each additional daily serving of ultra-processed food is associated with an 18% relative increase in all-cause mortality risk.
Track your daily servings of ultra-processed foods. Each extra serving adds 18% to your mortality risk. Reducing even one serving per day can significantly lower your long-term health risk.
GoodSupportsHIGH confidence
For each additional serving of ultra-processed foods, all cause mortality relatively increased by 18% (adjusted hazard ratio 1.18, 95% confidence interval 1.05 to 1.33).
Why this rating
Consistent with the primary finding, supported by linear trend analysis.
Source
Association between consumption of ultra-processed foods and all cause mortality: SUN prospective cohort study
Anaïs Rico-Campà et al. · BMJ · 2019
DOI 10.1136/bmj.l1949
cohort · n=19899Cited 533×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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