[BirAdam]

When companies have engineers sitting around figuring out the precise amounts of salt, sugar, and crunch required to force a person to eat 4 servings of something in one sitting… yeah, at least put a warning label on it. I don’t know that I agree with outright bans or anything, but people should be properly warned about the risks.

[zeech]

As another commenter pointed out, those are hyperpalatable foods, not 'ultraprocessed foods'.

Besides, 'ultraprocessed food' itself is and has always been a useless buzzword (buzzphrase?).

[xg15]

"Ultraprocessed" is at least a tangible definition though (even if it's a proxy) where you can empirically show that a certain product is ultraprocessed or not based on the way it is manufactured.

It also has enough overlap with addictive food to be a useful criterion.

In contrast "hyperpalatable" is more precisely describing the problem, but seems much more difficult to proof / easy for manufacturers to wiggle out of.

How would you prove that a given food item is "hyperpalatable"?