You may want to leave that frozen pizza or ice cream in the freezer aisle.
A new study has found that eating processed foods could contribute to cognitive decline if they consist of more than 20% of your daily calorie intake, according to CNN.
Researchers said that eating more heavily processed foods may lead to weakened executive functioning in the brain, which affects someone’s ability to process information and make decisions.
The study also found that those who ate the most ultra-processed foods had a 28% faster rate of global cognitive decline and a 25% faster rate of executive function decline when compared with people who ate the least amount of processed foods.