Will Singapore’s ‘novel food’ dreams be ultra-processed?
In recent years, warnings about the health risks of UPFs have grown increasingly widespread, even if scientists are not clear what exactly makes them bad
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ANY food that has a regular shape is likely highly processed and even “fake”, a college friend told me many years ago.
By then, I had already developed my own distaste for chicken nuggets and sausages, once I came to the unnerving conclusion that I couldn’t quite pinpoint what exactly was in them. So I could see his logic, yet his comment still shook me.
Those curved potato chips that come neatly stacked in a canister are another example, he said. To a self-confessed potato fiend, this realisation was far more devastating, and it was then that I found out these chips are made from dried potato flakes.
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