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Fact: We add salt to foods because we like it, not because we need it

I heard a food critic talking about salt (the main source of sodium in our diet) on the radio recently. He very much supported chefs adding salt to cooking because he said food had no flavour without it. He also said [...]

 Fact: The Mediterranean diet is healthy because it contains of variety of protective foods

Everybody has heard good things about the Mediterranean diet. Typically we hear it’s good for the heart, and this is true as evidenced by the lower rates of heart disease experienced in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. However most people when asked [...]

Fact: Old and new grains are good for you 

Ancient grains such as spelt, chia, amaranth and quinoa are fashionable at the moment, albeit harder to get and more expensive. The rising popularity of these old-world grains is great because variety in the diet, and a variety in agricultural production, is good for us and good [...]

Truth: Potatoes are a vegetable, and vegetables are good for you.

 The poor old potato is a much maligned food but it really doesn’t deserve all the criticism. It has been called fattening, bad for blood sugars, and generally undesirable, but this really isn’t fair. Spud-lovers can relax. Potatoes are good for you.

 Potatoes are starchy tubers [...]

Fact: superfoods and supplements are over-hyped and super-expensive

The term ‘superfood’ was coined to describe foods with high levels of nutrients and phytochemicals that offer health benefits such as green leafy vegetables, berries and oily fish. However food and supplement marketers have ‘gone to town’ with the whole concept and make inflated promises and exaggerated claims. [...]