Eating a lot of ultra-processed foods, like packaged snacks and ready-to-eat meals, might raise your chances of getting colorectal cancer by about 30%.

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Ultra-processed food consumption and cancer risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis

2023 Jun

The study looked at eating lots of ultra-processed foods and found it raises the risk of colorectal cancer by 30%, just like the claim says.

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Ultra-processed food consumption and cancer risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2023.03.018

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