{"id":244973,"date":"2026-10-06T21:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/ultraprocessed-meals-produce-distinct-metabolic-and-brain-responses"},"modified":"2026-10-06T21:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:03:11","slug":"ultraprocessed-meals-produce-distinct-metabolic-and-brain-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/ultraprocessed-meals-produce-distinct-metabolic-and-brain-responses","title":{"rendered":"Ultraprocessed meals produce distinct metabolic and brain responses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultraprocessed-meals-produce-distinct-metabolic-and-brain-responses2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most nutrition science suggests that meals with the same basic nutritional profile will have the same impact on a person\u2019s blood sugar.<\/p>\n<p>But is there something about food processing itself that influences how our bodies respond?<\/p>\n<p>Researchers exploring that question were surprised to find that minimally and highly processed meals nutritionally matched on calories, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, water, salt, and weight produced distinct metabolic responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most nutrition science suggests that meals with the same basic nutritional profile will have the same impact on a person\u2019s blood sugar. But is there something about food processing itself that influences how our bodies respond? Researchers exploring that question were surprised to find that minimally and highly processed meals nutritionally matched on calories, carbohydrates, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}