Ultra-processed foods and dopamine: Parsing complexity beyond observed variability.

da Fonseca, Natasha Kim de Oliveira; Brietzke, Elisa · Cell Metab · 2025

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Abstract

Fonseca and Brietzke expand on the ongoing discussion on dopamine signaling in response to ultra-processed foods by proposing that emotional, metabolic, and neural mechanisms may jointly contribute to addressing consumption variability in the context of obesity.

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