Unprocessed by Kimberley Wilson review: our diet is damaging our brains | Culture

Much of the food we eat, especially the cheap stuff, contains chemicals you have never heard of. How many of these do you have in your store cupboard: modified maize starch, ascorbic acid and potassium sorbate? All of them, probably; you just didn’t know. They were all in a rather innocent-looking jar of Waitrose Bramley apple sauce I just picked up.

These are ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and they account for 55 per cent of the British diet, the highest figure in Europe. Only the American diet is worse, with 57 per cent UPFs. The Italians get by with just 14 per cent.

This book, if widely read, will make UPFs as alarming as nicotine and much scarier than cheese or red meat. Kimberley Wilson is

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