Dr Chris van Tulleken on peanut butter, plums and his ‘clean label’ list
OUR WEEKLY SHOPPING trolley is mostly filled with fruit and vegetables. Ours is most definitely an ‘ingredients household’, so if you want cake or biscuits, you’re going to have to make them. Good fruit is my treat for pudding: perhaps a lovely ripe mango or a deliciously juicy plum.
Meet Chris
Dr Chris van Tulleken, 44, is an infectious diseases doctor and broadcaster. He is married with two young daughters. His latest book, Ultra-Processed People (Cornerstone, £22), is out now.
AFTER RESEARCHING the evils of ultra-processed foods (UPFs), my food choices have changed. I can’t bear the idea of eating anything made from a long list of crazy chemical ingredients. So lunch on the hop is more likely to be a bag of nuts, cherry tomatoes and a couple of bananas rather than sandwiches and crisps.
THERE ARE FISH FINGERS IN OUR FREEZER and baked beans in the kitchen cupboards, but if I’m shopping for a ready meal I’ll look for those with a ‘clean label’ list of simple ingredients you’d have in your own kitchen.
I’M LIKE AN EX-SMOKER when it comes to ultra-processed foods: I find
