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Researchers found weight loss is greater when eating minimally processed foods over ultra-processed foods.

Participants consuming minimally processed foods lost twice as much weight as ultra-processed food eaters.

Participants ate fewer calories and less fat when eating minimally processed foods.

Even the ultra-processed foods that are touted as healthy could foil an attempt to diet, according to new research that finds weight loss is greater when ultra-processed foods are avoided.

Researchers at University College London found that the level of processing made a difference even in nutritionally matched diets. Those who ate minimally processed foods lost twice as much weight as those consuming ultra-processed food.

The study is published in Nature Medicine .

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