Welcome to the Eat This Not That Podcast. I'm John Hammond and this is Megan Murphy.

Hi everyone.

And this week we are taking another cue from you, our listeners who have been emailing us

your thoughts and ideas on the program.

Yes, it's so great to get all of your emails and messages. We love reading each and every one of them.

This way we can make sure that we're creating

shows that you want to hear about the things that you're most curious or concerned about.

So please be sure to keep them coming. Send us your thoughts at podcast at eat this.com.

So one of them that caught my eye recently was from Lois Rouse. Hey, shout out to Lois. So she wrote us asking,

she said, I'm curious about additives and foods that claim to be healthy. I know some of the

additives, but I think there are some in there that are masking themselves as healthy ingredients,

but they are really just a fancy way of saying it is a preservative or additive.

I'm particularly interested in celery powder. That sounds harmless, even healthy, but I was told by

a friend that they think it is a preservative. So we're here to answer that question and kind of get into

some of those preservatives out there, additives. Well, and Lois, and this email from Lois underscores a couple things.

Like, yes, like, how many times have we talked about, you know, ingredients that are, or terms

that are thrown on food packaging that are meant to sound healthy?

Sneaky, sneaky terms.

It's marketing speak for the most part.

And we did a whole episode about, you know, like fake or real kind of food terms.

But this is a great example.

This is a great question.

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