600+ Questionable Ingredients In Your "Healthy" Packaged Products? Is Beef Tallow Actually Safe (Surprising Answer!) & How To Save Money On Good Groceries, With Thrive Market's Nick Green.
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 10 May 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, you’ll get to discover what’s really happening in the food industry—and how one mission-driven founder is working to clean it up from the inside out. Nick Green, co-founder and CEO of Thrive Market, shares an unfiltered look at the gaps in the American food system and what it takes to make healthy, clean food more accessible. A Harvard graduate and serial entrepreneur, Nick has raised over $240 million to scale Thrive Market while investing in breakthrough companies like Liquid Death and Blueland.
Whether the goal is to simplify grocery shopping, make more informed choices, or stay ahead of the trends shaping nutrition and wellness, this episode delivers the insight and clarity needed to navigate the modern food world with confidence.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield and on this episode of the Boundless Life podcast. |
| 0:04.9 | The FDA, there are ingredients that the FDA hasn't re-reviewed or hasn't reviewed at all in decades. |
| 0:10.5 | This is the food die issue, right, where you've got red three, yellow five, blue one, all of these food dyes. |
| 0:16.9 | Many of them are actually byproducts of petroleum, which is pretty crazy when you start to think about it. |
| 0:21.5 | They're linked to behavioral issues and like cognitive developmental issues in kids, like hyperactivity, ADHD, et cetera. |
| 0:29.0 | Red 3 has specifically been linked to thyroid dysfunction and thyroid cancer in rats since like the 1980s. These are ingredients that have been |
| 0:39.4 | banned in Europe for a very long time. Interestingly, actually, you read three was banned |
| 0:45.0 | from cosmetics, so like it can't be in lipstick and yet it's still allowed in food. Welcome to the |
| 0:50.9 | boundless life with me, your host, Ben Greenfield. |
| 0:57.7 | I'm a personal trainer, exercise physiologist, and nutritionist, |
| 1:04.3 | and I'm passionate about helping you discover unparalleled levels of health, fitness, longevity, and beyond. |
| 1:12.9 | Oh, I am a fan of potato chips. |
| 1:13.5 | Who's not? |
| 1:15.3 | They're truly the great American snack. |
| 1:23.0 | According to legend, the potato chip was accidentally invented by a guy named Cornelius Vanderbilt in the 1850s, when he kept complaining that his side of French-style fried potatoes were too thick. |
| 1:27.3 | So the chef sent them back extra thin and fried to a crisp. |
| 1:31.1 | Now, initially, potato chips were a high-end finger food that were all the rage in late 19th century America. |
| 1:36.6 | Back then, of course, seed oils weren't around, and chips were fried in beef tallow. |
| 1:41.3 | Well, nowadays, in case you haven't heard, seed oils, which can be easily oxidized in |
| 1:47.2 | your body and cause rampant inflammation, while they're practically impossible to avoid, even in so-called |
| 1:52.1 | healthy snacks, and especially in potato chips, even high-end fancy steakhouse store chips are |
| 1:57.0 | usually drenched in seed oils. Brand new, 100% American-made potato chips called Vandy are finally changing this. |
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