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A major new study found that eating more ultra-processed foods (UPFs) – especially those with certain additives – is tied to higher mortality from any cause over about 11 years of follow-up.

Published in the journal eClinicalMedicine, researchers looked at nearly 187,000 adults in the U.K. ages 40 to 75 using data gathered from the U.K. Biobank, and tracked their diets and health for 11 years.

Participants filled out multiple online food diaries describing what they ate in a 24-hour period. To figure out how much UPF and which additives (MUPs) people were really eating, the team matched those reported foods to actual supermarket products, checking ingredient labels for 57 potential markers of MUPs, only some of which are t

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