Conditions & Recovery · NCI News Releases · May 20, 2025

NIH researchers develop biomarker score for predicting diets high in ultra-processed foods

For the first time, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) identified patterns of metabolites in blood and urine that can be used as an objective measure of an individual’s consumption of energy from ultra-processed foods.

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