Dr. Jason Fung

The problem is the environment, the ultra-processed foods.

Yeah, there's quite a lot, actually.

The most common is actually commercial white bread.

And bread itself is actually not an ultra processed food.

But on the other hand, if you look at bread from a bakery, bread from a bakery, it should have like four ingredients, three or four, right?

Flour, sugar, water, certain thing, plus or minus egg.

When you look at like commercial white bread, it's got like 15 ingredients, right?

Most of which you're not going to know how to pronounce, right?

and it's because there's all this other stuff in it that's going to the texturizers emulsifiers and so on so it's an ultra processed food it stays soft for like a week right well you know the bread you bought from bakery is hard like the very next day why because it's natural that's what it's supposed to do right but this one it holds on to the water

So, you know, you might think, oh, white bread.

Well, you know, that's not ultra processed.

It's just bread.

It's, you know, a staple.

It's like, even if you compare the commercial white bread from the 70s to today, it's very different.

Like you can look at the ingredient list or McDonald's French fries, right?

French fries should have potatoes and that's it, right?

And deep fry.

I mean, McDonald's French fries have, you know, flavoring and, you know, beef flavoring and all this other stuff.

that makes it much less natural.

So you have to be very careful.