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Lorraine Kearney, Certified Dietitian Nutritionist: Most people think ultra-processed foods are found in the chip aisle or the cookie aisle, but it can also be found in the cereal aisle, in oatmeal, in yogurts. I'm going to help you today to 8navigate through them and what to look out for when we get our bread at the bakery. It is the most 9minimally processed bread. When I'm looking at the ingredient list on these two breads I prefer this option. It has multigrain flour, water, salt and yeast 10compared to this other 11shelf-stable bread that does have more additives and 12preservatives as well as dough conditioners to preserve shelf life. 

This one does have more fiber compared to the other bread with most Americans only consuming about 5% of the fiber they need in a day. They are missing out a lot of nutrients so when we are looking at a minimally processed cereal it will have that shorter ingredient list and lower amounts of sugar compared to the 13flavor enhancers or the added fats and oils to increase that 14mouthfeel. 

With our ultra process, it does have a higher amount of calories, but then with the fiber, when we look minimally processed, has a total of 12 compared to 10. With some yogurts, there's actually enough sugar to be enough for a dessert rather than a breakfast. So when we are choosing a yogurt, we want to make sure that we are looking at the 15ingredient list. This product has 18 grams of added sugar. And how we can tell if the product is high, low, or medium sugar is 16dividing the number of grams by four to turn it into teaspoons, compared to zero grams of added sugar and 15 grams of17 protein.