Food: Truth or Scare: Episode 2
Series 5, Episode 2
21 July 2020

Food: Truth or Scare
Series 5: 2. Episode 2Gloria Hunniford is joined by former health secretary Edwina Currie as the two of them navigate conflicting media stories about the safety of eating eggs, 30 years on from the salmonella scandal. Could headlines claiming the bug is back be true? Chris Bavin unscrambles the claims that the cholesterol in eggs could be increasing your risk of heart disease. And are our fears about processed food largely unfounded?