考研考级英语核心词汇（2025.3.30）

摘要：一提到不健康食品，你可能会想到外卖、油炸食品或糖果——这些高脂肪或高糖分的食品。但一种新观点认为，我们应该将关注点从食物的营养成分转移到它的加工方式和生产地点。

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新科学家杂志（2023.4.29）

THINK of unhealthy foods and you might picture takeaways, fried foods or sweets – products high in fat or sugar. But a new idea says we should shift our focus away from a food’s nutrient content to how and where it is made.

一提到不健康食品，你可能会想到外卖、油炸食品或糖果——这些高脂肪或高糖分的食品。但一种新观点认为，我们应该将关注点从食物的营养成分转移到它的加工方式和生产地点。

Anything cooked from scratch in your own home is allowed, while food made in a factory, which is now classed as “ultra processed” thanks to artificial ingredients like additives or high-fructose corn syrup, is frowned upon.

只要是在家中从头开始制作的任何食物都是可以接受的，而工厂生产的食品则被归为"超加工食品，由于含有添加剂或高果糖玉米糖浆等人工成分，这类食品正受到质疑。

Consider a pre-packaged loaf of brown bread. Usually seen as wholesome fare, its additives put it in the ultra-processed camp. Most breakfast cereals would join it, as would anything containing a preservative or a sweetener – which might include seemingly healthy things such as low-fat yogurt or shop-bought hummus.

以预包装的棕色面包为例。虽然通常被视为健康食品，但其添加剂使其被归类为超加工食品。大多数早餐谷物食品也属于此类，任何含有防腐剂或甜味剂的食品亦然这可能包括看似健康的低脂酸奶或商店购买的鹰嘴豆泥。

Ultra-processed food is an integral part of the food system in most high-income countries, and it is often the cheapest food. It is unrealistic to expect families simply to start cooking all their meals from scratch, and many people don't have the time or the money to do so.

在大多数高收入国家，超加工食品是食品体系不可或缺的一部分，而且通常是最便宜的食品。期望家庭完全开始从头开始烹饪所有餐食是不现实的，许多人没有时间或金钱这样做。

Instead, possible steps include changing food labelling and marketing rules to make it clearer that food is highly processed – which is already done in some South American countries – without raising stigma.

可行的措施包括改变食品标签和营销规则，在不增加污名化的情况下更清楚地标明食品经过深度加工一些南美国家已经在这样做。