Gunter Kuhnle

Gunter Kuhnle is professor of nutrition and food science at the University of Reading

Is the war on ultra-processed foods justified?

Ultra-processed food is back under the spotlight. ‘In the last decade, the evidence has been slowly growing that ultra-processed food is harmful for us in ways we hadn’t thought. We’re talking about a whole variety of cancers, heart disease, strokes, dementia,’ Tim Spector, a professor of epidemiology at King’s College London, told a recent BBC