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World Service,17 Feb 2022,28 mins

The online food fighters

The Food Chain

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Social media is full of fake news about food. Fad diets, cure-all superfoods, demonised ingredients, made-up health scares – you’re never more than a few clicks away from unreliable nutritional information. In this episode, Ruth Alexander meets two people trying to take on those who peddle the food myths. What is it like getting into an online food fight; can an individual ever hope to change people’s minds; and why would anyone even try? (Picture: Hand holding cream pie on man's face. Credit: Getty/BBC) Producer: Sarah Stolarz Contributors: Dr Joshua Wolrich, NHS doctor, nutritionist and author Erin aka Food Science Babe, chemical engineer and food scientist

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