Towards unified global action on ultra-processed foods: understanding commercial determinants, countering corporate power, and mobilising a public health response
Authors: Phillip Baker, Scott Slater, Mariel White, Benjamin Wood, Alejandra Contreras, Camila Corvalan, Arun Gupta, Karen Hofman, Petronell Kruger, Amos Laar, Mark Lawrence, Mikateko Mafuyeka, Melissa Mialon, Carlos Monteiro, Silver Nanema, Sirinya Phulkerd, Barry Popkin, Paulo Serodio, Katherine Shats, Christoffer Van Tulleken, Marion Nestle, Simon Barquera
Published in: The Lancet, November 18, 2025 view full text
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Policies to halt and reverse the rise in ultra-processed food production, marketing, and consumption
Authors: Gyorgy Scrinis, Barry Popkin, Camila Corvalan, Ana Clara Duran, Marion Nestle, Mark Lawrence, Phillip Baker, Carlos Monteiro, Christopher Millett, Jean-Claude Moubarac, Patricia Jaime, Neha Khandpur
Published in: The Lancet, November 18, 2025 view full text
Examining the co-occurrence of nutritional warning labels and environmental labels on food packages: Effects on consumer perceptions and likelihood of purchase
Authors: Fernanda Mediano, Gaston Ares, Camila Roman, Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier, Gemma Galvez, Camila Corvalan
Published in: Food Quality and Preference, November 14, 2025 view full text
Firm’s responses to food policies to reduce consumption of ultra-processed food and beverages: lessons from the existing evidence
Authors: Juan Carlos Salgado, Bhairavi Jayaraman, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Shu Wen Ng
Published in: Food Policy, October 31, 2025 view full text
Healthy Food Voucher Programs: Global Evidence on Structure, Implementation, and Nutrition-Related Outcomes
Authors: Jonathan Lara-Arevalo, Camila Corvalan, Isabel Pemjean, Daniela Montes de Oca, Shu Wen Ng, Lindsey Smith Taillie
Published in: Advances in Nutrition, October 1, 2025 view full text
Prevalence of ultra-processed foods and beverages in newly launched products across the Americas: a comparison between the United States and Latin American countries from 2018 to 2023
Authors: Gabriela Vatavuk-Serrati, Katie Meyer, Donna Miles, Lindsey Smith Taillie
Published in: Frontiers in Public Health, September 7, 2025 view full text
Working towards affordable healthy diets: a review on innovations in food price monitoring, policy and research in Australia and beyond
Authors: Carmen Vargas, Kathryn Backholer, Rebecca Bennett, Rahul Maganti, Meron Lewis, Josephine Marshall, Gary Sacks, Laura Alston, Adyya Gupta, Cindy Needham, Oliver Huse, Shuwen Ng, Christina Zorbas
Published in: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, September 5, 2025 view full text
Food Waste Among Young Adults: Behaviors, Barriers, and Opportunities for Intervention
Authors: Sara Vandersip, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Anna Grummon, Carmen Prestemon, Alexandria Reimold
Published in: Current Developments in Nutrition, September 3, 2025 view full text
Evaluation of Caffeinated Beverages Sold in a National Sample of US Middle and High Schools
Authors: Leah Chapman, Erin Hager, Shuwen Ng, Nan Dou, Juliana Cohen
Published in: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. July 3, 2025 view full text
Evaluation of caffeinated beverages sold in a national sample of U.S. middle and high schools
Authors: Leah Elizabeth Chapman, Erin Hager, Shuwen Ng, Nan Dou, Juliana Cohen
Published in: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, July 3, 2025 view full text
All the Colors of the Rainbow: Synthetic Dyes in US Packaged Foods and Beverages in 2020
Authors: Elizabeth Dunford, Thomas Galligan, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Aviva Musicus
Published in: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, June, 24, 2025 view full text
Front-of-Package Food Labels and Perceived Weight Stigmatization: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Authors: Aline D'Angelo Campos, Anna Grummon, Shuwen Ng, Rebecca Puhl, Shelley Golden, Marissa Hall
Published in: JAMA Network Open, June 20, 2025 view full text
Estimating price and expenditure elasticities for select foods and drinks in South Africa using a demand systems model.
Authors: Chengetai Dare, Maxime Bercholz, Micheal Kofi Boachie, Evelyn Thsehla, Shuwen Ng
Published in: Journal of Public Health Research, June, 1, 2025 view full text
Changes in sugar-sweetened beverages and nonessential energy-dense food purchases overall and by type before and after the implementation of taxes in Mexico: repeated cross-sectional national surveys (2008-2018)
Authors: Claudia Gabriela Garcia-Chavez, Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutierrez, Shuwen Ng, Juan Rivera, M Arantxa Colchero
Published in: BMJ Public Health, May 30, 2025 view full text
The role of water insecurity in influencing water and sugar-sweetened beverage choices: a scoping review
Authors: Laina Ewoldt, Ana Clara Duran, Checkna Diawara, Carolina Batis, Deshira Wallace, Paul Taillie, Joshua Miller, Shuwen Ng, Ryan Cronk, Lindsey Smith Taillie
Published in: PLOS Sustainability and Transformation, May 12, 2025 view full text
Exploring disparities in the proportion of ultra-processed foods and beverages purchased in grocery stores by US households in 2020
Authors: Elizabeth Dunford, Donna Miles, and Barry Popkin
Published in: Public Health Nutrition, April 24, 2025 view full text
The mismatch between biological needs and the modern food industry
Authors: Barry Popkin, Shuwen Ng, Lindsey Smith Taillie
Published in: Nature Food, March 10, 2025 view full text
Indonesian Adolescents’ Perceptions of Front-of-Package Labels on Packaged Food and Drinks
Authors: Wendy Gonzalez, Eny Kurnia Sari, Aang Sutrisna, Zineb Felix, Nabila Ernada, Adhika Dibyareswati, Lindsey Smith Taillie
Published in: Current Developments in Nutrition, March 8, 2025 view full text
Changes in the critical nutrient content of packaged foods and beverages after the full implementation of the Chilean Food Labeling and Advertising Law: a repeated cross-sectional study.
Authors: Natalia Rebolledo, Pedro Ferrer-Rosende, Marcela Reyes, Lindsey Smith Taillie
Published in: BMC Medicine, January 27, 2025 view full text
Nutrition Transition's latest stage: Are ultra-processed food increases in low- and middle-income countries dooming our preschoolers' diets and future health?
Authors: Barry Popkin, Amos Laar
Published in: Pediatric Obesity, January 21, 2025 view full text