Summary
Which chopping board material is best for hygiene and the planet?
Greg Foot gathers the experts, dives into the data and crunches the numbers to get answers for listener Simon.
Each episode Greg investigates the latest ad-hyped products and trending fads promising to make us healthier, happier and greener. Are they really 'the best thing since sliced bread' and should you spend your money on them?
All of our episodes start with YOUR suggestions. If you’ve seen an ad, trend or wonder product promising to make you happier, healthier or greener, email us at [email protected] OR send a voice note to our WhatsApp number, 07543 306807.
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| 0:38.0 | Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to Slice Bread, the BBC Radio 4 show that investigates |
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| 0:46.4 | Each episode, we follow the crumbs of evidence to find out if one of your suggested |
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| 0:55.6 | suggestion comes from Simon Morris from Kent. Welcome to the studio, Simon. Hi Greg. Thanks so much |
| 1:00.9 | for coming. What wonder product would you like us to investigate today? Well, recently we were looking |
| 1:05.4 | at all our chopping boards in the house and they were looking pretty ropey. So we had a look out there |
| 1:09.8 | to see what we could replace |
| 1:11.3 | him with and we're quite surprised by the number of options and choices we have you've even brought in |
| 1:15.5 | your chopping board it looks like we have yeah looking a little bit ropey plastic white chopping board |
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