Summary
Is expensive salt better for your health?
Greg Foot gathers the experts, dives into the data and crunches the numbers to get the answers for listener Sally.
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 sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk OR send a voice note to our WhatsApp number, 07543 306807.
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| 0:16.0 | Simply doing your job, being a decent human being. |
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| 0:23.1 | their own light and that light is to be recognized by others. The long history of heroism with me, |
| 0:28.6 | Rory Stewart. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:44.0 | Hello, I'm Greg Furtz, and welcome to Slice Bread, the BBC Radio 4 show that investigates the wonder products promising to make you happier, healthier or greener. Each episode, we |
| 0:48.7 | follow the crumbs of evidence to find out if one of your suggested wonder products is indeed |
| 0:53.0 | the best thing since sliced bread or marketing BS. |
| 0:57.2 | And today's suggestion comes from Sally Sonex from Kent. |
| 1:00.1 | Welcome to the studio, Sally. |
| 1:01.5 | Hi, Greg. |
| 1:02.2 | Hello. What wonder product would you like us to investigate today? |
| 1:05.5 | I've become very curious about salt. |
| 1:08.3 | Hmm. |
| 1:09.2 | In particular, my godson Jake asked me about Baha gold salt and Himalayan pink salt and any of the |
| 1:18.5 | sort of Celtic or Celtic sea salts. |
| 1:21.5 | Yes, we've had a few inquiries about sea salt. |
| 1:24.2 | Listener Alicia dropped us an email on Slice.combed at BBC.com. |
| 1:27.8 | She wrote, my mum's recently become obsessed with social media. |
| 1:31.6 | She's become a marketer's dream. |
| 1:33.6 | Her recent purchase, Baha Gold Mineral Sea Salt, costs £46 for 454 grams of salt. |
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