What We Should Know About Ultra-Processed Foods

More than half of the average American adult’s diet consists of ultra processed foods. Foods like the frozen meal you grabbed for lunch, or your go-to morning granola bar or even your plant-based chicken nuggets. All of these foods can be ultra-processed. And eating these foods has been linked to overeating and higher risks of all kinds of diseases, from diabetes to cancer. Reset checks in with health coach Rochelle Trotter about how we got here, and how we get out. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.