{"id":2118411,"date":"2026-04-30T00:31:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/?p=2118411"},"modified":"2026-04-30T00:31:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:31:59","slug":"how-ultra-processed-foods-could-cause-disease-loss-of-phytonutrients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/2026\/04\/30\/how-ultra-processed-foods-could-cause-disease-loss-of-phytonutrients\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ultra-Processed Foods Could Cause Disease: Loss of Phytonutrients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Date: <b>2026-04-29 11:59:48<\/b><\/p>\n\n<div id=\"wrap_aoa4f3f0\" class=\"aoa_wrap \">\n  <iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"750\" height=\"440\"\r\n  \t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"width:750px;height:440px;\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0FS-VTILwm8?enablejsapi=1\"\r\n  \t\t\t\t\tframeborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n    <div id=\"aoa4f3f0\" class=\"aoa_overlay \">\n        <div class=\"aoa_content\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\"><img style=\"margin:0 auto;max-height:400px;\" data-src=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n        <span id=\"close_aoa4f3f0\" class=\"aoa_close\"><\/span>\n        <a id=\"close_btn_aoa4f3f0\" class=\"aoa_close_btn\" onclick=\"setVisibility('aoa4f3f0', 'none');\">&times;<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The 150 key nutritional components that are tracked in nutritional databases are only a tiny fraction of the more than 26,000 compounds present in our food.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed the previous videos in this series, check out:<br \/>\n\u2022 What Are Ultra-Processed Foods? (https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/what-are-ultra-processed-foods)<br \/>\n\u2022 How Bad Are Ultra-Processed Foods? (https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/how-bad-are-ultra-processed-foods)<br \/>\n\u2022 Which Ultra-Processed Foods Are the Worst in Driving the Association with Death and Disease? (https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/which-ultra-processed-foods-are-the-worst-in-driving-the-association-with-death-and-disease)<br \/>\n\u2022 Do the Health Impacts of Ultra-Processed Foods Apply to Plant-Based Meat Alternatives? (https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/do-the-health-impacts-of-ultra-processed-foods-apply-to-plant-based-meat-alternatives)<br \/>\n\u2022 How Ultra-Processed Foods Could Cause Disease: Food Additives (https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/how-ultra-processed-foods-could-cause-disease-food-additives)<br \/>\n\u2022 How Ultra-Processed Foods Could Cause Disease: Industrial Contaminants (https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/how-ultra-processed-foods-could-cause-disease-industrial-contaminants)<br \/>\n\u2022 How Ultra-Processed Foods Could Cause Disease: Packaging Chemicals (https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/how-ultra-processed-foods-could-cause-disease-packaging-chemicals)<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the rest of this extended video series on ultra-processed foods, coming out over the next several months.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t want to wait for each video to be released, we\u2019ve compiled all the information into a brand-new book, Ultra-Processed Foods: Concerns, Controversies, and Exceptions (https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/book\/ultra-processed\/). <\/p>\n<p>New subscribers to our e-newsletter always receive a free gift. Get yours here: https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/subscribe\/.<\/p>\n<p>Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/how-ultra-processed-foods-could-cause-disease-loss-of-phytonutrients and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it.<\/p>\n<p>Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/how-ultra-processed-foods-could-cause-disease-loss-of-phytonutrients. You\u2019ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching. I hope you\u2019ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution!<br \/>\n-Michael Greger, MD FACLM<\/p>\n<p>Captions for this video are available in several languages; you can find yours in the video settings. View important information about our translated resources: https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/translations-info\/<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/NutritionFacts.org<br \/>\n\u2022 Subscribe: https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/subscribe<br \/>\n\u2022 Donate: https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/donate<br \/>\n\u2022 Podcast : https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/audio<br \/>\n\u2022 Books: https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/books<br \/>\n\u2022 Shop: https:\/\/drgreger.org<br \/>\n\u2022 Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NutritionFacts.org<br \/>\n\u2022 Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/nutrition_facts<br \/>\n\u2022 Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nutrition_facts_org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 2026-04-29 11:59:48 The 150 key nutritional components that are tracked in nutritional databases are only a tiny fraction of the more than 26,000 compounds present in our food. If you missed the previous videos in this series, check out: \u2022 What Are Ultra-Processed Foods? (https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/what-are-ultra-processed-foods) \u2022 How Bad Are Ultra-Processed Foods? (https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/how-bad-are-ultra-processed-foods) \u2022 Which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2118412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2118411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-living","traffikrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118413,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118411\/revisions\/2118413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2118412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}