%0 Journal Article
%A Berden, Jeroen
%A Hanley-Cook, Giles T
%A Chimera, Bernadette
%A Aune, Dagfinn
%A Pinho, Maria Gabriela M
%A Nicolas, Geneviève
%A Srour, Bernard
%A Millett, Christopher J
%A Koc Cakmak, Emine
%A Kesse-Guyot, Emmanuelle
%A González-Gil, Esther M
%A Vamos, Eszter P
%A Blanco Lopez, Jessica
%A Baudry, Julia
%A Berlivet, Justine
%A Chang, Kiara
%A Touvier, Mathilde
%A Le Cornet, Charlotte
%A Marques, Chloé
%A Dahm, Christina C
%A Ibsen, Daniel B
%A Jannasch, Franziska
%A Skeie, Guri
%A Sanchez, Maria-José
%A Schulze, Matthias B
%A Grioni, Sara
%A van der Schouw, Yvonne T
%A Jimenez Zabala, Ana M
%A Winkvist, Anna
%A Tjønneland, Anne
%A Sacerdote, Carlotta
%A Kyrø, Cecilie
%A Weiderpass, Elisabette
%A Guevara, Marcela
%A Frenoy, Pauline
%A Tumino, Rosario
%A Panico, Salvatore
%A Katzke, Verena
%A Ren, Xuan
%A Vineis, Paolo
%A Ferrari, Pietro
%A Lachat, Carl
%A Huybrechts, Inge
%T Quantifying the Environmental and Food Biodiversity Impacts of Ultra-Processed Foods - Evidence from the EPIC Study.
%J Public health nutrition
%V nn
%@ 1368-9800
%C Cambridge
%I Cambridge University Press
%M DKFZ-2025-01892
%P nn
%D 2025
%Z epub
%X While associations of ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption with adverse health outcomes are accruing, its environmental and food biodiversity impacts remain underexplored. This study examines associations between UPF consumption and dietary greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe), land use, and food biodiversity.Prospective cohort study. Linear mixed models estimated associations between UPF intake (grams/day and kcal/day) and GHGe (kg CO₂-equivalents/day), land use (m2/day), and dietary species richness (DSR). Substitution analyses assessed the impact of replacing UPFs with unprocessed or minimally processed foods.368,733 participants in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study.Europe.Stronger associations were found for UPF consumption in relation with GHGe and land use compared to unprocessed or minimally processed food consumption. Substituting UPFs with unprocessed or minimally processed foods was associated with lower GHGe (8.9
%K environmental impact (Other)
%K food biodiversity (Other)
%K food processing (Other)
%K ultra-processed foods (Other)
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%$ pmid:40931427
%R DOI:10.1017/S1368980025101067
%U https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/304503