Is Our Food Dangerous? Busting Myths about Food Science

The PedsDocTalk Podcast: Child Health, Development & Parenting—From a Pediatrician Mom

Dr. Mona Amin

Medicine, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

I welcome Erin--a chemical engineer and food scientist and she helps me bust some myths about food science. She has an amazing Instagram account @foodsciencebabe where she shares evidence-based explanations of myths regarding food. Tune in as we discuss the following: Is corn syrup bad? Is baby rice cereal going to give my child arsenic poisoning? Are there really heavy metals in baby food? Is it a problem? Why do Cheerios get a bad rap? Is organic food better? Is it better for the environment/ What is GMO? Is non-GMO really better? Is food coloring bad? Is the EWG a science-based organization? How is food regulated in the US? Supplemental Reading: https://scimoms.com/social-consequences-gmo-debate/ https://scimoms.com/history-of-healthy-food-and-mom-shaming/ https://scimoms.com/arsenic-in-rice/ https://scimoms.com/intro-to-gmos/ https://scimoms.com/high-price-food-labels/ https://www.safefruitsandveggies.com/ https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/10/22/95-baby-food-tainted-toxic-metals-dont-panic-14354 https://www.agdaily.com/insights/ewgs-tone-deaf-decision-to-publish-dirty-dozen-despite-global-pandemic/ https://www.parents.com/recipes/scoop-on-food/is-there-sugar-in-baby-formula/ Make sure to follow @pedsdoctalk and @foodsciencebabe on Instagram. Check out my weekly videos on child health & development by ⁠⁠subscribing to PedsDocTalk on YouTube⁠⁠. Get trusted pediatric advice, relatable parenting insights, and evidence-based tips delivered straight to your inbox—join thousands of parents who rely on the PDT newsletter to stay informed, supported, and confident. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! And don’t forget to follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@pedsdoctalkpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on Instagram—our new space just for parents looking for real talk and real support. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on the ⁠⁠⁠⁠PedsDocTalk Podcast Sponsorships⁠⁠⁠⁠ page of the website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to episode 25 is our food dangerous busting mitts about food science
0:17.9	Hey everyone. Welcome to the PEDs Doc Talk Podcast. I'm your host Dr Mona where each week I hope to educate and inspire you in your journey through parenthood with
0:21.8	information on your most common concerns as a parent
0:24.8	and interviews with fellow parents and experts in the field,
0:27.6	my hope is you leave each week feeling more educated,
0:30.6	confident, and empowered in the decisions you make for your child. confident and Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode. I am so
0:46.1	excited to have Aaron aka Food Science babe on Instagram. She is a chemical engineer and food scientist and we are going to be
0:55.9	talking all about the science of food. Thank you so much Aaron for being here today.
1:00.3	Yeah, thanks for having me. So what inspired you to start food science
1:05.1	babe? So I worked in the food industry now for a little over 10 years and so I guess I should first say that I used to be an organic food
1:16.7	consumer I used to believe some of the myths that I debunk now and so when I started you know realizing that a lot of these
1:26.5	things were myths you know the longer that I worked in the food industry I I just got really sick of seeing so much misinformation on social media and yeah, so I just I was like okay. I don't really see anyone specifically debunking things, you know, I saw a lot of dieticians and you know, doctors and stuff like that trying to debunk this information but I didn't
1:54.1	specifically really see anyone sort of debunking like the food babe type stuff
1:59.0	about the food industry and about GMOs and organic and all that kind of stuff so I was just like I'm
2:05.6	gonna start a page and start debunking some of the stuff and see if people care about what I have to say.
2:11.3	So that's kind of just how it got started.
2:14.0	Well, I definitely am so glad I found your page.
2:17.0	I actually found your page a couple months ago.
2:19.0	I was saying how, you know, with Instagram it kind of goes where you're you discover a page and you're like
2:24.7	wow how did I not know about this and as a pediatrician you know I don't know nearly
2:29.6	enough about food science so I'm gonna probably learn something from you too which is super exciting because I've already learned so much from your page from just following you for a couple months so I'm so glad you're here and if you are not already you need to follow Food Science
2:44.5	babe on Instagram I'm gonna obviously tag tag it in the show notes but a lot of
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