DPG46 Food and Culinary Professionals (FCP)

What RDNs Need to Know: The DGAs and Ultra-Processed Foods 

Oct 09, 2025 07:25 PM

Date: December 12, 2023

Speaker: Lauren E. O’Connor, PhD, MPH & Amber Courville, PhD, RDN

The topic of ultra-processed foods is permeating the nutrition research and policy community, including being one of the questions under review for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans evidence review process. However, there are several challenges of identifying whether a food is ultra-processed and how to incorporate these foods into research designs, such as secondary analyses using dietary databases and controlled feeding studies or dietary interventions. While there are several food processing classification systems, the Nova system, developed in Brazil and origin of the term 'ultra-processed', is the most widely adopted. This webinar will focus on the three objectives below pertaining to the Nova food processing classification system.

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