On: How the Tobacco Industry Drove the Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods (2025)

[einpoklum]

> UPFs include:

> * Ultra-processed whole wheat bread

> * Ultra-processed yogurt products

> * Literally all baby formula

> * Ultra-processed plant-based meat replacement

> * Ultra-processed hummus brands (again: stabilizers and emulsifiers)

There, fixed that for you.

(I don't know about baby formula, but granting you that one.)

[JadeNB → einpoklum]

> * Ultra-processed plant-based meat replacement

There, fixed that for you.

I think that it's also literally all plant-based meat replacers (meaning products intended to mimic meat, rather than just replacing meat with plants).

[hgomersall → JadeNB]

Tofu is often used as a meat replacement and is Nova classification 3 at most.

[JadeNB → hgomersall]

I agree, it is used in place of meat, but I think that it is not usually intended to mimic meat. For example, I think that few people would claim you could use tofu as a drop-in recipe replacement without affecting flavor, whereas meat replacers like Impossible are intended to be able to do exactly that.

[hgomersall → JadeNB]

TBF, the original post used the precise phrasing "plant based meat replacement", which IMO covers this like tofu as well as impossible burgers.