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Dec 9, 2025
'Number one most dangerous food' named -- not alcohol or fried food
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The "number one most dangerous food in the world" has been named by a "health educator" with a huge worldwide following. It's not alcohol, table sugar or fried food but has been called "the perfect definition of ultra-processed food", yet it's something we not only eat ourselves every day but also feed to our children. And what's more, we do it believing it to be healthy.
Eric Berg says this meal is in fact "a sugar bomb with another bigger sugar bomb" which causes a "massive fructose overload" which your liver then struggles to deal with.
"The number one most dangerous food in the world is not fast food," says Berg. "It's not even table sugar or seed oils or fried food or even alcohol.
"Many people think this meal is actually healthy and it's been normalised because so many people do it, including myself growing up. But it destroys your liver faster than anything else I know. This common breakfast meal is basically a sugar bomb with another bigger sugar bomb. You get this massive fructose overload. And it's pasteurised or cooked so there's going to be no nutrients in it. In fact, the vitamin C is added because heat kills vitamin C.
"But the type of vitamin C they're using is made from corn starch and sulphuric acid, it's synthetic ascorbic acid. Tonnes of sugar, tonnes of hidden industrial starch, artificial flavouring, artificial colouring, zero protein so you're not going to be satisfied when you consume it. It's the perfect definition of ultra-processed foods: ingredients that have been so altered it no longer resembles its original structure.
"Now your liver has to deal with all that. It has to convert it into fat, creating a fatty liver. The most dangerous meal that you can eat is cereal and orange juice."
Is cereal bad for you?
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