Studies have found that people who eat a lot of packaged and processed foods are more likely to get certain types of cancer, but we can't say for sure if the foods directly cause the cancer because of how the studies were done.

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Ultraprocessed Food and Risk of Cancer: Mechanistic Pathways and Public Health Implications

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2025 Jun 20

The study looks at how eating a lot of ultra-processed foods is linked to higher cancer rates, just like the claim says, and it agrees that more research is needed to prove it causes cancer.

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Ultraprocessed Food and Risk of Cancer: Mechanistic Pathways and Public Health Implications

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DOI: 10.3390/cancers17132064

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