Abstract
Processed & packaged foods such as ready meals, baked goods and processed meats can have negative health effects. Processed or packaged food is any food that’s altered during preparation to make it more convenient, shelf-stable, and tasty or flavorful. Most food needs some degree of processing and not all processed foods are bad for the body. However, chemically processed foods, also called ultra-processed foods, tend to be high in sugar, salt, artificial ingredients, refined carbohydrates and trans fats. These ingredients makes the processed food taste better and more palatable but leads to serious health issues like obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes & cancer etc. These foods now account for 25–60% of daily energy intake throughout much of the world leading to amplification of diseases.