Vani Hari, the Food Babe, has spent about 15 years pushing some of the country’s biggest food companies to change what goes into their products. She joins Jenny to talk about her new cookbook, Food Babe Feast. The book is about celebrating every holiday with the foods you love, including nachos, stuffing, donuts and her late mother-in-law’s Christmas chocolate roll, made with real, organic ingredients instead of additives.Jenny and Vani don’t agree on everything. Jenny is a fan of GLP-1s; Vani worries about how the food industry will respond to them. They still find plenty in common: food built so you can’t stop eating it, teaching kids to read the ingredients instead of the front of the package, why fruits and vegetables (and fiber) matter, and how Vani built Truvani into a brand sold at Costco without cutting corners on what goes in it.In this episode00:00 Meet Vani Hari, and what a “food activist” actually does01:50 Getting off nine prescriptions by eating whole, real food02:23 Truvani electrolytes (yes, the piña colada flavor)03:32 Food and medicine aren’t all-or-nothing04:37 Food Babe Feast: you can eat cake, it’s what’s in it that matters06:33 Holiday traditions with young kids, minus the “holiday death aisle”08:16 Not a diet book: gluten-free products, ancient grains and GLP-1s11:29 Foods made so you can’t stop eating them (chocolate Twizzlers, Honeycomb)12:36 You can disagree on GLP-1s and still agree on eating well13:01 What’s in a $25 Thanksgiving meal kit14:35 Taking on the food industry, and the shelved ultra-processed food definition16:10 Why Vani started Truvani, and the road to Costco18:26 Stuffing made with grass-fed butter and sourdough19:16 A family chocolate roll recipe, remade20:00 Vani’s three no’s: MSG, natural flavor and artificial flavor23:26 How to sweeten plain yogurt without the junk24:39 Teaching kids to sort their Halloween candy, and the Log Cabin syrup lesson28:10 The travel trick: individual packets of organic maple syrup29:09 Why Vani pushes back on carnivore diets: fiber, variety and fermented foods33:38 Where to find Truvani and Food Babe FeastLinksTruvani: truvani.com (also at Costco, Amazon, Whole Foods and Sprouts)Food Babe Feast: available wherever books are soldVani Hari: Instagram @TheFoodBabeConnect with Jenny Instagram @JustJennyHutt · TikTok and X @JennyHuttQuestions or comments:
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