Hello and welcome to Zoe Recap, where each week we find the best bits from one of our

podcast episodes to help you improve your health. Today, two foos, Professor Tim Specter says he was wrong about.

Mushrooms and ultra-processed foods, or UPS as they're often know.

While researching his best-selling book, Food for Life,

Tim dug deep into the new science around UPS.

We used to think they were unhealthy because of their high salt, fat, and sugar levels. But as it turned out,

there's much more to the story. In this clip, Tim helps us navigate our

you P. F. filled grocery stores to eat healthier.

First up, though, the incredible health benefits of a food Tim previously overlooked,

the humble mushroom.

Yeah, I discovered lots about mushrooms which I didn't know. I had no clue about them. I used to, to you know enjoy the odd mushroom in a risotto or with a Sunday

fry up maybe but I didn't realize quite how many thousands and thousands of species there are and the fact that they're

closer to animals than they are to plants as well so they're not actually members of the plant

kingdom.

That's crazy. And about a third of the earth we're standing on is made up of fungi and their mycelium, their network and they

incredible how they can produce these mushrooms that suddenly appear after a bit of rain and grow massively and then disappear again for another year.

It's incredible and it turns out they are potentially a real lifesaver for the planet if we can harness them right

because they have an amazing amount of nutrients in them and are very high in protein levels as well so it doesn't

regard which species there are and they have this meat-like quality to them that

humans can recognize the so-called umami flavor.

So they're often used to disguise dishes,

particularly Italian sources that, you know,

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