The better-for-you bakery trend has grown immensely in the last few years, as consumers demand more nutritious baked goods with plenty of functional ingredients. The high-protein bread (https://bakerpedia.com/processes/high-protein-bread/) trend, much like the keto trend, has shown plenty of staying power with grocery stores stocking more and more products i ... Show More
Aug 2020
What’s the yeast doing inside my bread?
If you’re one of the millions of people who used lockdown to try something new like baking sourdough bread, you may well be wondering what’s happening chemically inside your loaf, especially if the end result keeps changing. Well, you’re not alone. Listeners Soheil and Sean are b ... Show More
33m 21s
Aug 2016
Organic Food
People are going bonkers for organic, but what are you really getting when you buy them? Better taste? Fewer toxic chemicals? A cleaner environment? Farmers Mark, Andy, and Brian Reeves, nutritional epidemiologist Dr. Kathryn Bradbury, Ass. Prof. Cynthia Curl, and Prof. Navin Ram ... Show More
38m 5s
Jul 2022
Plant based promises, rise of the plant based burger
In Plant Based Promises, foodie, researcher and broadcaster Giles Yeo looks at the science behind plant based diets and the increasing number of plant based products appearing in supermarkets and restaurants. The market for plant based products could be worth $162 billion in the ... Show More
27m 33s
Jul 2023
Aspartame: The Surprisingly Interesting Science and History
Greg and Lyndsey dive into the history, conspiracies, science, and media coverage of aspartame to present a thorough overview of the recent WHO reports linking aspartame and cancer risk. Is this one of the longest "podcast episodes" ever? Probably. But it's packed with fascinatin ... Show More
5h 43m
Nov 2023
Politics Of Dairy, Why Dairy Sensitivities May Not Be From What You Think | Sam Ingersoll of Supernatural
128: If you have sensitivities to dairy, it may not be the dairy itself but the type and quality of dairy you are consuming that is causing the issue.Sam Ingersoll from Kalona Supernatural joins us to delve into the politics of dairy, revealing what most people don't know about t ... Show More
59m 40s
Apr 2018
Anna Zeide, “Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry” (U California Press, 2018)
Most everything Americans eat today comes out of cans. Some of it emerges from the iconic steel cylinders and much of the rest from the mammoth processed food empire the canning industry pioneered. Historian Anna Zeide, in Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the A ... Show More
52m 34s