Dog Food, Diet Fizzy Drinks & Mouthwash
Sliced Bread
BBC
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Is expensive dog food better for your pooch than the cheap stuff? Are diet fizzy drinks actually ‘bad’ for you? And should we all add mouthwash to our bathroom routine?
With Greg up at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this week we’re doing something a little different - investigating THREE of the wonder-products you’ve sent us on WhatsApp in a triple slice of quick investigations.
First up, listener Ali in Bristol wants to know whether the expensive dog food she bought is really better for her new pooch than the cheaper stuff. Greg speaks to one of the UK’s most senior vets to find out the differences between wet and dry dog food and whether the latest doggy diet trends of vegan and raw food diets are a good idea for our canine companions.
Second is Sophie who loves Diet Coke but her friends and family say it’s bad for her. Greg finds out about the latest evidence from the Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK regulator, the Food Standards Agency.
Finally, listener Helen wants to know - what’s the point of mouthwash? And in finding out, Greg’s bathroom routine is turned on its head!
Keep your suggestions coming for wonder-products you’d like us to investigate. Send them over on email to sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk or as a voice note to our WhatsApp number: 07543 306807.
PRESENTER: Greg Foot PRODUCER: Simon Hoban
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, podcast fan. |
| 0:03.0 | Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party. |
| 0:06.7 | We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July |
| 0:09.0 | for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival. |
| 0:12.8 | We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting, |
| 0:15.3 | including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane, |
| 0:18.4 | and some bloke called Greg James doing his radio four show called Rewinder. |
| 0:23.2 | You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts, |
| 0:25.3 | and the best part is free. |
| 0:28.0 | To book your free tickets, |
| 0:29.3 | go to crossedwires.orgive, forward slash fringe. |
| 0:34.1 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:49.2 | Hello, I'm Greg Foote, and welcome to the show that cuts through the advertising hype to find out whether the latest promising-sounding wonder products do actually deliver on their bold claims. |
| 0:55.9 | Are they the best thing since sliced bread or marketing BS? |
| 1:00.2 | This week's episode is going to be a little different. |
| 1:03.1 | I am up at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival doing some shows right now. |
| 1:06.2 | So rather than one long sliced bread investigation, I'm doing three short ones, three slices rather |
| 1:13.8 | than the full loaf, shall we say. |
| 1:15.8 | Today's topics are dog food, diet fizzy drinks and mouthwash. |
| 1:20.4 | And I'm excited about this because it gives me a chance to investigate more of the wonder |
| 1:24.0 | products that you've been sending over on WhatsApp. |
| 1:26.4 | Please do keep them coming, by the way. |
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