The Truth About Seed Oils and How to Prioritize Protein with Nicolas Jammet

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Bioptimizers, Cozy Earth, and Sweetgreen. When we hear "fast food," we often picture highly processed, questionably sourced ingredients. But in our hectic lives, we crave quick, wholesome options that boost longevity instead of fueling disease. Meet Nicolas Jammet, one of the masterminds behind Sweetgreen—a game-changing solution now thriving in countless locations nationwide. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Nicolas Jammet, Co-Founder and Chief Concept Officer of Sweetgreen, a healthy fast food restaurant that prides itself on creating quality food. Nicolas shares how and why Sweetgreen came about and why it was Sweetgreen’s mission to focus on creating with transparency. He also shares why Sweetgreen decided to shift away from seed oils and focus on quality fats and how Sweetgreen continues to be an innovator in the restaurant space. Nicolas is the Co-Founder & Chief Concept Officer of Sweetgreen, the mission-driven restaurant brand that serves healthy food at scale. Sweetgreen’s vision is to be as ubiquitous as traditional fast food but far more transparent and honest. Nicolas has been recognized as a key innovator in food and business and was named Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business.” In this episode, Dhru and Nicolas dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): The shocking decision behind removing seed oils from Sweetgreen’s meals (2:24 / 2:24) Are seed oils harmful (3:52 / 3:52) Innovation in the fast food industry space (19:20 / 16:43) The customer response from an innovative decision (23:30 / 21:08) The importance of high-quality protein and the benefits of eating protein (25:50 / 23:15) Working with regenerative growers (47:46 / 43:08) Collaboration with farmers (51:30 / 47:02) Avoiding sugar in dressings (54:35 / 50:05) Choosing the appropriate grains for Sweetgreen’s menu (56:52 / 52:00) Core health principles (58:40 / 53:54) The why behind building Sweetgreen (1:03:35 / 58:00) The future of Sweetgreen (1:09:00 / 1:04:32) Advice for entrepreneurs ( 1:14:38 / 1:09:55) For more on Nicolas, follow him on Instagram and @nicolasjammet on Twitter/X. Start the New Year off right and dial in on your sleep. Go to bioptimizers.com/dhru now and enter promo code DHRU10 to get 10% off any order. Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com and use code DHRUP. Find out more about Sweetgreen and their newest protein plates at www.sweetgreen.com. New Users of the sweet green app can use the code "Dhru5" for $5 off. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, Drew Brod here. Today we have a fantastic episode with Nicholas Jammit.
0:05.8	Nicholas Jammit is the co-founder and chief concept officer of Sweet Green.
0:11.4	If you're not familiar with Sweet Green, they are a billion dollar restaurant
0:15.3	empire here in the US that focuses on healthy food at scale.
0:20.3	They are one of the biggest in this space if not the biggest and they are doing things right
0:25.1	including a recent announcement that they made that got all the press in the world which is
0:30.1	partly why we have Nicholas on the podcast today they They announce that they are moving away from seed oils when it comes to cooking their vegetables
0:36.8	and preparing their protein at their restaurants.
0:39.6	That's a huge deal.
0:40.6	It takes restaurants like Sweet Green who are willing to take this kind of risk and do things differently, even though the topic of seed oils is super controversial and very nuanced, we get into some of those nuances there so hats off to Sweet Green and
0:53.7	hats off to Nicholas and his team a little bit more about Nicholas Nicholas
0:56.7	Nicholas and his co-founder started Sweet Green in 2007 opening their first
1:01.2	location in Georgetown DC just three months out of college.
1:04.4	Their vision is to be as ubiquitous as traditional fast food is but far more transparent and honest.
1:11.2	Nicholas has been recognized as a key innovator in food and in business
1:14.7	named Fast Companies Most Creative People in Business, 30 under 30 for Forbes, and Food and Wine's
1:21.1	40 big food thinkers under 40.
1:24.0	I'm excited to chat with Nicholas today.
1:25.6	We're going to get into a bunch of stuff.
1:27.0	If you're a budding entrepreneur, want to start a business, we talk about that a little bit.
1:30.0	But first we kick off the conversation by talking about one of the most controversial areas about health,
1:35.2	which is the topic of seed oils.
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