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Food Navigator is an industry newsletter with articles about topics of interest to food companies.  This is one of its occasional collections of columns on a particular topic, in this case, beans, seeds, and grains.

Beans, chickpeas, peas and lentils are now appearing as added value ingredients in every part of the store, from chips and snacks to salads, soups, pastas, dips and baked goods. Non-GMO, gluten-free, high in protein, fiber and micronutrients, and low in fat, beans in particular are undergoing a PR renaissance among consumers, who have been eating them for years in tacos and burritos, but now see them as a more wholesome alternative to soy, rice, corn and potatoes in their snacks. So where will they go next, and who is driving innovation, both from a formulation, and branding perspective? We also take a look at ancient and ‘heirloom’ beans and grains.

•  Manufacturers answer FAO’s call to increase pulse consumption in 2016 with new bean-based snacks: In declaring 2016 the year of the pulse, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN issued a call to action to increase the consumption and popularity of legumes such as chickpeas, lentils and beans which are under used in the US… Watch now
• How consumer demand is resurrecting ancient grains from the past: Data from SPINS reveals that sales of products featuring ‘ancient grains’ grew 16.6% year-over-year to $198,884,358 in 2016… Read
• Rancho Gordo brings heirloom beans to American doorsteps: Working with farmers from Central California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, and Mexico, Napa-based Rancho Gordo is resurrecting long-forgotten beans and bringing them back to the American table…Read
• Modern Table Meals serves up bean pasta as meal kits or plain: The team of moms is cornering the category with a double whammy-pulse-based pasta for both the time-strapped parent and the aspiring chef with more time on their hands… Read
• The Good Bean rides bean-based snacking wave in the Year of the Pulse: The Good Bean – a Berkley-based snack brand built around the garbanzo bean (chickpea) – more than doubled its sales in 2015 and expects to do so again in 2016 as pulse-based snacking (beans, peas, lentils) gains momentum. .. Read
• US volumes of pulses surge 8% in 2015, outpacing overall fresh food growth of 1%: Volumes of pulses (defined as leguminous crops – beans, peas, chickpeas, lentils – harvested for dry grains) surged 8% in the US in 2015, while overall volumes of fresh food (retail, foodservice, institutional channels combined) grew by a more modest 1%, according to Euromonitor International… Read
• Beans, peas, lentils, chickpeas: The hottest ingredients in the snack developer’s toolbox? North American pulse growers still export a lot of their wares, but domestic demand has ramped up significantly in recent years as beans, peas, chickpeas, and lentils have started to infiltrate every aisle in the grocery store, from hummus, bean dips, pasta and salads, to chips, brownies and nutrition bars, according to pulse processor AGT Food and Ingredients…Read
• Inclusion of pulses in processed food grew the fastest, says Pulse Canada: Of the many culinary ways pulses can be used, inclusion as an ingredient in snack foods or pasta really ramped up, Pulse Canada data says. We chatted with the industry association to learn more about the state of pulses… Read
•  Full of beans: Banza chickpea pasta now in 2,000+ stores… ‘It’s been a wild ride!’: Unlike some of the more esoteric products at Expo West, Banza chickpea pasta is aimed squarely at mainstream consumers who are looking for more protein and fiber in their pasta, but are not prepared to compromise on taste or texture (no mush). .. Watch now
•  Bean pasta category emerges to meet demand for high-protein, fiber-packed and gluten free options: Ongoing interest in products that are gluten free and better for you are colliding with the international push to celebrate 2016 as the year of the pulse to create a burgeoning category of pasta created from legumes rather than more traditional wheat or rice… Display
• Whole grains consumption increases thanks to plant-forward diet, focus on new flavors: Once shunned for their distinct taste and texture, whole grains are gaining acceptance among more Americans for these same attributes thanks in part to innovative restaurateurs and chefs who are using them to round-out increasingly popular plant-forward dishes, according to the Whole Grains Council… Read
•  Taste Test Friday: Banza chickpea pasta with One Hop Kitchen Bolognese offers a twist on a classic: On the menu for this edition of Taste Test Friday is a blind sampling of a classic American-Italian meal: pasta with Bolognese sauce – but with a twist. .. Watch now
• World Peas acquired by Snack it Forward: Austin based World Peas – best known for its coated peas and fava bean snacks, has been acquired by L.A. based Snack it Forward LLC – which makes freeze-dried fruit snacks (Sunkist Fruit Chips) and trail mix… Read
• NY start-up unveils the ultimate plant-based protein snack: BRAMI lupini beans: Lupini beans have a nutritional profile to die for. The problem is, most Americans have never heard of them. But that could change rapidly if the New York based entrepreneur behind BRAMI snacking beans gets his way… Read
•  Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Quinoa’s rise to superfood superstar status and the challenges it must address: Quinoa was one of the first superfoods to take America by storm more than a decade ago, and one of the few such stars to sustain its reign long enough to push past being a fad food to become a staple on restaurant menus and households across the country, but the popular grain faces challenges as it become commoditized. .. Listen now
•  Whole grains 101: Highlights from the 2015 Whole Grain Summit: The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans say half of our grains should be whole. So how are we doing? FoodNavigator-USA headed to Portland, Oregon, for the 2015 Whole Grain Summit  – organized by Oregon State University and the Grains for Health Foundation – to find out….. Display
• Eating more whole grains could reduce risk of chronic diseases, study finds: New research that demonstrates a clear association between eating whole grains and the reduced risk of chronic diseases supports the 2015 dietary guideline’s recommendation that Americans “shift” their diet by making at least half their grains whole grains. .. Read
•  Selling complex carbs in a post Grain Brain world: Do grains really make us fat and sick? Grains, according to the author of best-selling book Grain Brain, are “silent killers”. Not only are they making us fat, says Dr David Perlmutter, “but even healthy ones like whole grains can cause dementia, ADHD, anxiety, chronic headaches, depression, and much more…” But is there any truth behind these assertions, and if not, what can the grain chain do to fight back?.. Watch now

I completely understand that the food business is fiercely competitive, not least because the U.S. food supply provides about twice the calories needed by the population on a daily basis—4000 calories each in 2010—and companies have to sell all that.

The makers of processed foods and drinks spend fortunes marketing their foods in this environment.  Now producers of fruits and vegetables feel that they too need to compete.  They form trade associations to do this for them and to pay for research they can use to market their products as “superfoods.”

Meet, for example, the Pear Bureau Northwest, which pays for research and sends press releases about its only-to-be-expected positive results, in this case “New Research Indicates Regular Fresh Pear Consumption May Improve Blood Pressure in Middle-Aged Men and Women with Metabolic Syndrome” (my emphasis).

I like pears.  They are delicious when ripe.  But superfoods?  Really?

As always, the operative word is “may.”

This study compared the effects of eating 2 medium-sized fresh pears or or 50 g of a pear-flavored drink per day for 12 weeks.  Well, duh.

In my collection of industry-funded studies last year were two sponsored by the busy Pears Bureau Northwest.

Systematic Review of Pears and Health. Holly Reiland, BS Joanne Slavin, PhD, RD.  Nutrition Today November/December 2015 – Volume 50 – Issue 6 – p 301–305.  

• Conclusions: Animal studies with pears suggest that pears may regulate alcohol metabolism, protect against ulcers, and lower plasma lipids. Human feeding studies with pears have not been conducted. In epidemiological studies, pears are combined with all fresh fruits or with apples, because they are most similar in composition. The high content of dietary fiber in pears and their effects on gut health set pears apart from other fruit and deserves study.
• Funding: The authors received a grant from USA Pears in the past. The authors provided their own funding to allow this article to publish as Open Access.
• Comment: Pears are a great fruit but the marketing purpose of this study is evident from this press release from the Pear Bureau Northwest: “While the body of evidence connecting pear intake and health outcomes is still limited, USA Pears has been contributing to research efforts by commissioning independent studies to learn and affirm the heath attributes of pears. Visit www.usapears.org for additional pear research, nutrition resources and recipes.”

Fresh Pear Consumption is Associated with Better Nutrient Intake, Diet Quality, and Weight Parameters in Adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2001-2010.  O’Neil CE, Nicklas TA, Fulgoni VL (2015) J Nutr Food Sci 5: 377.

• Conclusion:  Compared to non-consumers [of pears], consumers were 35% less likely to be obese (p<0.05). Fresh pears should be encouraged as a component of an overall healthy diet.
• Funding: Partial support was received from the United States Department of Agriculture/ Agricultural Research Service (USDA/ARS)…Partial support was also received from Pears Bureau Northwest.
• Comment: I’m guessing the same result could be obtained by looking at consumption of any other fruit.  And to prove my point that this is about marketing, here’s the press release.

Will this research help sell more pears?  We will see.

Is it wrong to want to have more pears sold?  Not at all, but why do this at the expense of any other fruit, all of which contain valuable nutrients.

If pears are superfoods, all fruits are superfoods.

Eat the ones you like.

 

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This morning, I received a query from a scientist:

I have been following your documentation of industry-funded research on health benefits. I’ve been thinking about this issue from the perspective of fruits and vegetables. We know that they are good in general, but how does one fund research to demonstrate that clinically? In particular, how does one get specific about the form and amount that his helpful for specific health benefits?  You may be interested in this press release from the raspberry industry telling about the papers at the Society for Experimental Biology meetings that are relevant to the health benefits of eating raspberries. This seems to be approaching what a good model might look like. I’m interested in your perspective. Furthermore, are the results relevant to nutritionists?

Here’s how I answered it:

Thanks for sending.  I guess my question would be something along the lines of why getting specific about form and amount of specific fruits and vegetables is important for public health.  People don’t eat just raspberries.  They put them in cereal or on desserts.  Raspberries are expensive.  Wealthy, educated and, therefore, healthy people are likely to consume them.  So this looks like marketing research to me—selling raspberries as a superfood.  If you think there is a special benefit to raspberries and that it would be good to quantify it, the best strategy would be to get the research funded by an independent agency.  Otherwise, it’s clearly marketing research (hence the press release).   At least that’s how I see it.

This, of course, gets us back to the question of sponsored research which, as my collection of sponsored studies has shown, almost inevitably produce results favorable to the sponsor.  I love raspberries and don’t doubt for a minute that they are healthy, but a superfood?  I don’t think so.

I’m still working on the descriptive analysis of the year’s collection of sponsored studies.  I will also be giving more thought to such questions, so send them along.

I greatly enjoy Food-Navigator’s collections of articles on specific topics.  Here’s one on marketing foods to kids.

While there is some evidence that the tide may now be turning on childhood obesity, 8.4% of US 2-5 year-olds; 17.7% of 6-11 year-olds and 20.5% of 12-19-year-olds are still obese, and many are lacking in essential nutrients from potassium, dietary fiber and calcium, to vitamin D. So how can the food industry respond to these concerns and develop more nutritious, but appealing snacks, meals and beverages for kids?

• SPONSORED LINK: The Booming Kids’ Food & Beverage Market: Parents are looking for healthier options for their children, and smart food and beverage manufacturers are listening. See how to gain parents’ attention and innovate in the children’s food & beverage space…   Click Here
• 8 healthy food trends to watch in 2016 that could influence children’s eating:The shift towards cleaner, more nutrient dense foods will continue to spread in the US in the coming year with parents increasingly looking for healthy options for the whole family – including picky children, who in generations past might have been served chicken nuggets or mac and cheese instead of baked chicken and veggies. .. Read
• True Drinks strikes budget-friendly balance between marketing AquaBall to kids and parents: A common conundrum for marketers of children’s food and beverages is how to engage two sets of stakeholders without doubling the budget. .. Read
• Mobile app aims to help children pick healthy, portion-controlled food: Ensuring children have healthy options in their lunches and for snacks is one way to help them fight obesity, but for the times when they select their own food at restaurants and friends’ houses, a new app and coaching program from Kurbo Health Inc. can help them eat right. .. Read
• Once Upon a Farm: In 3-5 years, every baby food section in the country will have a refrigerator: High-pressure-processing (HPP) – which gave birth to the super-premium juice category – will also play a disruptive role in the baby food market in the next five years, predict the founders of Once Upon a Farm, a new baby food brand in a pouch that will be merchandised in the chiller… Read
• Pure Spoon CEO: HPP is going to turn the baby food category on its head: It won’t happen overnight, but the future of babyfood is in the chiller, predicts one Texas-based entrepreneur pioneering the application of high pressure processing (HPP) in a category she claims is ripe for disruption… Read
• Plum Organics sales surge 44% in 2015 as ‘food-forward’ formulations tap into needs of Millennial shoppers: Dollar sales of Plum Organics surged 44.2% in measured channels* in the past 52 weeks, 3.8 times the average rate of growth for brands in the organic baby food segment, says the company, which has secured a 7.2% share of the $1.6bn US baby food and snacks category… Read
• Continual evolution is key to survival in competitive food market, Momme Meals exec says: To make it in the highly competitive food and beverage segment, startups need to listen to consumers and evolve to meet changing demands – even if that means letting go of their “baby,” says the founder of Momme Meals. .. Watch now
• Go Gourmet helps pouches grow-up from baby food to snacks for school-children: Go Gourmet wants to “up the ante” in the applesauce and fruit cup aisle with its “superfood snack” Slammers – premium fruit and veggie purees for school-aged children in pouches that pose a triple threat with taste, nutrition and personality, says CEO Michael Watt. .. Read
• Back to Nature Foods Co. repositions SnackWell’s as a “free-from” line: Back to Nature Foods Co.’s revitalization of the recently acquired iconic SnackWell’s brand is an example of how established companies can refresh aging brands that are struggling to better compete with new products from disruptive startups… Watch now
• Healthy NPD should be the starting point for kids’ food: The ‘good for you’ trend in children’s food is growing, and small companies would do well to focus on healthy healthy new product development in order to compete with big players who have the money to reformulate and rebrand, says one analyst… Read

Addition, February 3: A reader reminds me that Food-Navigator published a guide to creating successful children’s brands a couple of months ago.

If you are a maker of processed foods, and have exhausted low-carb and low-fat marketing options, all you have left is proteins—the hot new marketing tool.  Protein-supplemented products are all over supermarket shelves.  Never mind that most Americans get twice the protein required, and that even vegans can easily meet and exceed protein requirements.

As FoodNavigator-USA puts it, “manufacturers are now competing to impress shoppers with how much they can pack into bars, beverages and yogurts. In this FoodNavigator-USA special edition we’ll look at what protein options are available for formulators, from new insect and algal-based proteins to pea, soy, and dairy-based proteins.”

• Protein water hits the mainstream as Protein2o rolls out at Walmart: Protein2o – a rapidly-growing line of flavored waters infused with electrolytes and 15g of protein – is rolling out to 750 Walmart stores this month, says the firm, which is targeting consumers that are looking for more refreshing beverages that pack in a meaningful amount of protein, without the calories… Read
• Flapjacked meets demand for more protein with easy-to-make pancake and muffin mixes: High protein, easy-to-eat foods are no longer limited to bars and shakes – now they can also be found in familiar baked goods that appeal to carb-loving consumers, thanks to companies like Flapjacked. .. Watch now
• fairlife: ‘We’re responsible for a large portion of the growth in the value-added dairy category‘: Coca-Cola-backed high-protein milk brand fairlife isn’t sharing any numbers, yet. But if you’re wondering how it’s performing, the answer is very nicely, says communications director Anders Porter, who says the firm is also working on a suite of products utilizing the milk “that can be consumed during any day part”. .. Read
• Earth’s first superfood? Solazyme’s whole algae protein gains traction as formulators seek more vegan options: New sources of protein from edible insects to hemp are being incorporated into a growing number of products from bars to beverages. But does microalgae have what it takes to become a serious player in the so-called ‘alternative proteins’ market?.. Read
• C-fu’s new processing platforms could help pave the way for an insect commodity market: Two new, versatile production platforms created by ingredient supplier C-fu FOODS could crack open the nascent insect protein commodity market in North America by “abstracting the product from its source,” a company co-founder says… Read
• Tiny plants with huge potential: Introducing two new players to the plant-based protein market: Two firms that generated a lot of buzz at the IFT show this year were Parabel and Hinoman, which are both selling brand new nutrient-packed ingredients from tiny aquatic plants. But do they have what it takes to give more established players in the plant-based protein category a run for their money?.. Watch now
• EPIC Provisions: ‘If an opportunity came with the right strategic partner, we would absolutely take it’: Revenues at EPIC Provisions more than tripled to $6.8m in 2014, and are on course to triple again to $20m in 2015 as the EPIC brand – which first hit shelves in 2013 – continues to lure new consumers to a category (premium meat snacks) that has rapidly gone from lukewarm to red hot… Read
• Jerky is the ultimate high protein, low fat, low carb, healthy snack, says Oberto: Most Americans eat meat. But only a small percentage eats meat snacks. So does this disconnect simply reflect the fact that beef doesn’t pair too well with a mid-morning mocha-latte, or is it proof of a huge, still largely untapped, market opportunity? .. Read
• Blending soy and dairy proteins adds benefits for consumers, manufacturers, DuPont says: Two sources of protein in a finished product are better than one when it comes to blending soy and dairy, according to DuPont Nutrition and Health… Read
• Trend toward higher protein doses to continue, but big tubs will still rule, consultant says: Innovation in protein sources and mixtures continues, but delivery mode innovation has not kept pace, at least not in the US market, said consultant Ralf Jaeger, PhD… Read
• Protein powders: The heavyweight in the $16bn sports nutrition market: The US market for sports nutrition plus energy/nutrition bars and sports drinks is set to cruise past $20 billion by 2020, says Euromonitor International, but which segments are driving growth, and how is the ‘regimentation of fitness’ influencing product development?.. Read
• Protein is hot, but customers are getting more discerning about the source and quality, says Glanbia Nutritionals: Glanbia Nutritionals has expanded beyond its dairy roots to add pea, chia and flax protein concentrates to its portfolio to meet growing demand for vegan protein, says business development manager Vicky Fligel, who caught up with us for our special edition on protein… Read
• Ancient, yet modern? Sacha inchi and hemp give formulators new options in plant-based proteins: Hemp and sacha inchi – two ‘ancient yet modern’ sources of protein from seeds – are gaining traction in the burgeoning plant-based protein set, although their premium price tag means they are unlikely to become as big as rice or pea protein – at least in the short term, says AIDP.  .. Read

Just remember: Diets adequate in calories are highly likely to be adequate in protein, and average protein intake in the population is twice the amount required.  From the standpoint of nutrition, protein is a non-issue.  But that doesn’t stop marketers from looking for ways to push it.

I was unfamiliar with the Leanwashing Index, but am delighted to learn about it.  EnviroMedia launched it in 2012 to discourage advertisers from using absurdities to push products.

EnviroMedia explains the inspiration for the Index: the appearance of the word “Superfood” on Lake Superior State University’s 38th annual List of Words to be Banished.

Here’s the 2013 Leanwashing list:

• Natural
• Made With
• Whole Grains
• Light
• 100 Calorie

Away with all of them!  (I can think of plenty more.  Send your suggestions to the site.)

Here’s a prime example:

And while we are on the subject of whole grains, you might want to take a look at Colbert’s latest “Thought for Food.”

Enjoy the weekend!

The New York Times Magazine has a long article this week about Plumpy’nut,  the peanut butter-based product designed to feed malnourished kids in emergency situations.  The product is made and patented by Nutriset, a French company.

You might think that a food product aimed at saving the lives of starving kids would be uncontroversial, but not when patents are involved.  Nutriset holds intellectual property rights to this product and defends them to the hilt.   The company extends its patent to line extensions of the product, as well.

Patents mean that people in developing countries who want to produce their own product based on local ingredients can’t do it.  It also means that anyone making the product has to follow the formula, even if ingredients are expensive and not locally available.

In September 2007, I wrote about Plumpy’nut, describing how peanut butter had become the basis of a “ready-to-use therapeutic food” (RUTF) for aiding recovery of severely malnourished children in Africa.

The study itself is published in Maternal and Child Nutrition and the authors make the point that people administering this RUTF do not need to be medically trained so this therapy can be used at home. I’m always amazed when researchers discover that feeding malnourished children helps them to recover. Peanut butter is highly concentrated in calories and the investigators mixed in some vitamins along with it, so I guess it can be considered a superfood.

Since then, much has been written about the controversy over this product, particularly about its formula, cost, and sustainability.

Its formula includes:

• Peanut Butter
• Dry Skim Milk
• Vegetable oil
• Powdered sugar
• Minerals & vitamins

It contains about 500 calories in a 92-gram foil package.

Of these calories, one-quarter to one-third are from the added sugar.  No wonder kids like it!

What about its cost? A recent article about local production of Plumpy’ nut in Niger illustrates this particular problem.

UNICEF pays US$60 to purchase and ship a box of 150 packets from the main producer and patent holder of Plumpy’nut, Nutriset, in France. It costs $65 in Niger. The difference adds up to an extra $15,000 for the 3,000 boxes purchased in Niamey every week.

“The luxury of having no production delays and not fully depending on an external provider is a price we are willing to pay,” UNICEF’s nutrition manager, Eric-Alain Ategbo, told IRIN. Ategbo said it took at least eight weeks for the nutritious peanut butter-like paste to arrive from France.

Here are some other cost concerns:

Electricity is expensive, taxes are high and money is expensive as interest rates are high. It would be cheaper if the products we use were bought locally, but they are not available.  Peanuts are the only ingredient from Niger. Others, such as milk, sugar and oil, are purchased internationally. We also have the obligation to buy specific products [such as micronutrients and packaging] from Nutriset in order to respect the formula.

As for its sustainability:

• Who is going to pay for these products?  And for how long?
• Does it make sense to promote a peanut-based product in countries that do not grow peanuts?
• Is it a good idea to give packaged, sweetened products to kids whose families cannot continue to provide such things once the crisis is over?
• Is it a good idea to give kids the idea that sweet things in packages are what they supposed to eat?
• Will products like this pave the way for other sweetened products in packages—soft drinks, for example?

These are all complicated issues.  Read the article and ponder.

This page is somewhat disorganized in that I now put occasional print, audio, and video interviews, which used to be separated, together by year.  The section at the very end is called Controversies; it is where I post letters from critics.  Scroll down to find whatever you are looking for.  Media interviews and reviews for specific books are on the page tabs for that book.  For old podcasts and videos of presentations, look under Appearances and scroll down for Past Appearances; in recent years, I’ve been putting them in the chronological list here.

Interviews, media appearances, and lectures (the ones for which I have links)

2024

News clips (articles in which I’m quoted) 2024 through August

Dec 6  Interview with Pam Brown, CNN, on RFJ, Jr’s food policy ideas

Nov 28  This video about sugar in soft drinks was just posted on Twitter (X) but its YouTube listing says 7 years ago, when I was on a Fulbright in Mexico in 2017.

Nov 20  Susman Lecture: Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives on SLow Cooked (video)

Nov 18  CNN Live with Pam Brown and Jason Karp on color additives

Oct 19  Reflections on Stanley Moss.  My remarks begin at 34 minutes.

Oct 9  NPR In Good Health with Arfie Ghedi, Fatima Cody Standord, and Julie Rovner on the drop in obesity prevalence.

Sept 27  Food Tank session on the Role of Technology at the Nexus of Affordability, Nutrition and Food Waste.  Here is my “fireside chat” with Dani Nierenberg and Dariush Mozaffarian.

Sept 23  Food Tank session on Restaurants and Farms: A Key Solution to the Climate Crisis.  My interview with Dani Nierenberg starts at 6:21:45 

Sept 10  Video podcast with Tim Rifai on food and politics

Sept 7  Audio podcast, In the Arena with Evan Baehr:  Spotify    YouTube     Pandora    Apple

Aug 20  Interview with Dr Mike on “the corrupt world of food politics.”

Aug 15  Howtown video: How they actually calculate the calories (my part starts at 6:18)

Aug 2  Podcast with Michael Silver, Part 2, on food politics, sustainability, and influence

Jul 28  Podcast with Diane Randall, Plant-Based Curious.  My segment: Unlocking the Food Puzzle.

Jul 14  Podcast with Michael Silver, FoodScience.org, on food politics.

May 28 Video: Gut feelings (on food and health)

May 23  The money behind ultra-processed foods.  Capitalisn’t podcast.  Spotify.   Apple.

May 23  Podcast with Maria Sokolina.  Short version.  Full interview.

May 20  Edible Communities podcast, Don’t take the (Click) bait.

May 7  CNN Chasing Life podcast: How Worried Should You Be About Ultraprocessed Foods?

Apr 24  Food revolution summit.  I’m told my interviews are in episodes 1 and 8.

Apr 22  Radio Free Rhinebeck, Lazy & Entitled, Addy & Esther Gen Z, Everything Food (my interview starts about 10 minutes in)

Apr 19 Changemakers: podcast on perspectives on the past, present, and future of food

Apr 12  Portside, the Lie that Made Food Conglomerates Rich, about ultra-processed foods.  Video.

Apr 11  Video interview with Christy Ai, The Cost of Everything

Mar 27  Trust Talk podcast: Food for Thought: Trust, Health, and Policy.  On Instagram.  On Trust Talk Linked In

Mar 26  Les Dames d’Escoffier panel on The Weight of Ozempic, Zoom video.

Mar 15  Panel discussion, At The Table – The Weight Of Ozempic. KSRO radio, Sonoma

Feb 14  Switch4Giid podcast on Big Food

Feb 7  Chef Sense podcast with James Massey on nutrition, health and food politics

Jan 25  Dr. John on Health, podcast on our “eat more” culture

2023

Dec 29 The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast Episode #230 – Best Of 2023 (Part 2)

Dec 24  CBS Sunday, radio, with Piya Chattophadyay, about Slow Cooked and food politics

Dec 17  Radio Catskill, Shelf Life with Aaron Hicklin on Slow Cooked

Dec 12  En Defensa del Consumidor video (in Spanish) interview with Monserrat Antuñez

Dec 9  Ralph Nader radio hour: Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight

Dec 1  Interview in Nupens USP (Brazil, in Portuguese): Four Questions (on ultraprocessed foods)

Nov 11  ABC Listen podcast Rear Vision on ultra-processed foods with Jennifer Leake (other guests: Laura Shapiro, Kevin Hall, Phil Baker, Melissa Lane, Stephen Guyenet)

Nov 3  Conversations That Matter  (@CTMinBC, Vancouver)

Nov 1  Podcast: Out of the Box with Jonathan Russo: Ozempic, Obesity, and Self-Control

Oct 23  Podcast: I Needed That, on the food industry and diets

Oct 19 Marion Nestle hace hincapié sobre la responsabilidad de la industria alimenticia; interview with Ingrid Cubas (print and video)

Oct 11  Edinburgh Science – Women in STEM playlist (video interview in connection with the Edinburgh Medal events)

Oct 10  Interview with Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center

Oct 8  Interview with PopLab: México y América Latina lideran el camino hacia una alimentación saludable: Marion Nestlé  (in Spanish)

Oct 3 Hometown Radio KVEC, host Bill Ostrander:  ultra-processed foods

Sept 27 Marion Nestle inaugura el Food Tech Summit con la conferencia:”El reto nutricional de la industria de alimentos”

Sept 21  Video discussion of Food Inc 2 at Food Tank

Sept 26 Ultraprocesados en el ambiente infantil, Alianza por la Salud Alimentaria

Sept 18 Panel discussion on ultra-processed foods with Kevin Hall and Fang Fang Zhang, moderated by Charles Platkin, Center for Food as Medicine

Sept 14 Premier of Food Inc 2.  Clip from panel discussion.   Also on Twitter and Instagram

Sept 7  Harvard Kennedy School Mossavar-Rahman Center lecture on food politics (the sound clears up in a minute)

July 3  El Podcast Media episode 34 on Slow Cooked.  Watch on Spotify or YouTube.

June 29  Scripps News Tonight (video) on aspartame

June 22  Interview with Petr Horký, Respekt (in Czech)

June 21  Pressure Cooker podcast: What’s the matter with snacking?

June 7  Food Tank panel on the 2023 farm bill

May 26  Melanie Avalon Biohacking Project #199 podcast.  Also on Apple podcasts.

May 24  Podcast #54  Table for Two (Lebanon).  Spotify link.

May 10  The You Project with Craig Harper.  Podcast #1167  (click on the right-hand square to get to it)

Apr 21  Video of Frances Moore Lappe’s pNYU resentation and panel (I’m on it): 50 years of Diet for a Small Planet

Apr  21   Video interview with Restore Childhood’s Natalia Murakhver.  The transcript is here.

Apr 19  Webinar on food policy to FoodBerlin: Food for the Future, Humboldt University.  This requires a passcode: 5@5Li?An

Apr 12  Edinburgh medal address, plus welcome and speeches by Tim Lang and Annie Anderson.    Press coverage of the Edinburgh Medal events.

Mar 30  Big Brains podcast, University of Chicago: How food industry created today’s obesity crisis.

Mar 26  Ross Crae, Junk Inc, interview in connection with the Edinburgh Medal.  Sunday Post (Edinburgh).

Mar 15  Anne Lim’s Left Over podcast series on “how corporations and politicians are milking the American school lunch.”  I’m in episodes 4, 5, and 6.  Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or Instagram or the Left Over website.

Mar 11  Al Scott’s Rational View podcast, Episode 138, on the politics of food

Mar 3  The Brian Lehrer Show WNYC radio with Sophie Egan on 10 nutrition myths

Mar 2  Podcast interview on Pressure Cooker, on kids food  (my part starts at about minute 20)

Mar 1  Video of lecture to Office of Dietary Supplements

Feb 23  Conversation (audio and video) with Sandro Galea, Boston U School of Public Health, on Slow Cooked.

Feb 14-15   Scottish press mentions of The Edinburgh Medal

Feb 11 Podcast on the politics of food, Rational View with Dr. Al Scott

Feb 8  Video interview on Feminism Today, on Slow Cooked

Feb 8 Interview (print) with CNN on ultra-processed foods

Feb 3  Interview  (video podcast) with Zibby Owens, Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, on Slow Cooked.

Feb 3  Keynote address, plant forward conference, Berkeley

Feb 2  A conversation about the White House Conference, Heritage Radio

Feb 1  Edible Education class (video), UC Berkeley

Jan 30  PrimaFoodie podcast.  Episode 4 (look for it) on food politics.  Listen on Apple,   Spotify,  Google, or Podfriend

Jan 26  Podcast (video) with Alisa Minkin, Jewish Orthodox Women’s Medical Association, on Slow Cooked

Jan 9   Video lecture at UCSF: “The journey of one woman in science and policy.”   It is also on YouTube.

Jan 3  Eat, Drink, Think Ep. 7, Edible Communities: Cooking and Capitalism podcast and article

Jan 3  De memoires van ‘voedselstrijder’ Marion Nestle.  FoodLog (in Dutch)

Jan 1  Jennifer Wilkins’ review of Slow Cooked. J Nutr Educ Behavior. 2023;55(1):81-82. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2022.11.001

 

2022

The NYU PR Office’s list of articles in which I’m quoted in 2022 

Dec 31  Interview with Mark Bittman.  His tweet about it.

Dec 23  Deborah Grayson’s review of Slow-Cooked on Worth.

Dec 15  CUNY Urban Food Policy Forum: Scholarship and Activism with Robert Gottlieb.  On YouTube.

Dec 15  With WBAI’s Leonard Lopate on Slow Cooked

Dec 12  Podcast, Center for Food Safety: The Hero’s Journey, episode 6.

Dec 12  Interview with KALW Your Call radio on food politics topics

Dec 2  Apple podcasts interview with Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street radioon food politics; it’s also on Spotify.

Nov 29 Food and Evironment Reporting Network’s “Back Forty talks with Marion Nestle”

Nov 24 Food Politics: Τελικά το φαγητό είναι και αυτό πολιτική  (print interview with me, in Greek)

Nov 22  Climavores (Tamar Haspel, Mike Grunwald) podcast on eating right to save the planet

Nov 20  Canadian Broadcasting: The Sunday Magazine with Piya Chattopadhyay

Nov 4  WORT radio Madision, WI on Slow Cooked

Nov 3  Berkeley Food Institute: “Marion Nestle’s Unexpected Life in Food Politics”

Nov 3  Podcast: Nutrition: A Recipe For Good Health on Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson

Nov 2  Matthew Rees’s Food Fact #178: An Interview with Marion Nestle

Oct 27  Heritage Radio Let’s Talk About Food with Louisa Kasdan, about Slow Cooked

Oct 25 REAL (Responsible Eating and Living) audio interview about Slow Cooked

Oct 24 KALW radio interview with Rose Aguilar about food policy

Oct 21 KCRW radio interview with Evan Kleiman about Slow Cooked.

Oct 20  Interview with Linda Pelaccio;s A Taste of the Past on Heritage Radio about Slow Cooked

Oct 19  STAT First Opinion: What makes food ‘healthy’ and why we don’t prioritize nutrition (Interview with Patrick Skerritt )

Oct 19  World Health Summit in Berlin (video): Interview with Francesco Branca (WHO) on transforming food systems.

Oct 15  KSRO radio interview with Clark Wolf about Slow Cooked

Oct 13  Interview with Charles Platkin, Hunter Food Policy Center, about Slow Cooked.   An article about the event is here.

Oct 13  Interview with GQ about Slow Cooked

Oct 13  Podcst with Dr. Adam Dorsay, SuperPsyched, on Slow Cooked

Oct 12  Interview about FDA’s “healthy” label, Brian Lehrer show

Oct 8  Excerpt from Slow Cooked on Blue Zones

Oct 4   Radio Cherry Bombe, Interview with Kerry Diamond about Slow Cooked.

Oct 3  Interview with Kelly Brownell about Slow Cooked.  YouTube is here.   Transcript and information are here.

Oct 3   Interview with No Filter, Count Vacula kids’ podcast (can’t believe I did this one)

Sept 30  Discussion with Danielle Nierenberg at Expo East about Slow Cooked (video).  My part starts at about minute 48.  Requires login

Sept 26  Scripps News push for front-of-package labels

Sept 20  Heartland Health Research Alliance, Episode 97  on food politics

Sept 19  Uncovering the Truth video  interview: How the USDA simultaneously represents industry and consumers

Sept 18  Podcast with Dave Dobrofsky, Uncovering the Truth (Slow Cooked)

Sept 13  Audio interview with Katy Kieffer, Heritage Radio, on Slow Cooked

Sept 12  Video interview with Chris MacAskill on Slow Cooked

August 30  Baby Steps Nutrition podcast with Argavan Nilforoush: “Up Close and Personal with Marion Nestle.”

August 30  Newsy, The Why (video): Why are diet and health confusing?

August 18  The Jordan Harbinger Show podcast, How Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat  (love the artwork)

August 5  Debate: Should We Eat More Processed Foods?  Intelligence Squared, NPR. With Kevin Hall, Michael Gibney, Amy Webb

July 28  Galilee Culinary Institute, interview with Mitchell Davis (Audio)

July 11  The Green Life podcast, on food politics

June 10 The Why—Newsy—on meat consumption (video)

May 31  BBC Interview with Drs. Chris and Xand Van Tulleken’s A Thorough Examination: Addicted to Food: Building an ultra processed world 

May 31  One Real Good Thing podcast with Ellie Krieger

May 26  Students for Liberty video on farm subsidies

May 18  Podcast on CBC Listen, Tai Asks Why (junk food)

Apr 11  MoMA R&D Salon 38 IP [Imperious Property]  My talk was on food, of course.

Mar 30  Food Thinkers talk to City University, London. Video

Mar 29  FoodPrint interview episode 5 (or 4?) on “natural” Video

Mar 26  Video (by phone) with Leean Lavin’s Ladies Who Lunch

Mar 21   Connecting the Dots on Spotify and Apple Podcast . Navigating lifestyle changes

Mar 17  Alimentar a Terra: os alimentos matam as fomes? – Escola Vera Cruz, Sao Paolo [in English]

Mar 7  Heritage Radio Let’s Talk about Food

Feb 24 اختصرت كل شيء عن الحميات الغذائية لإنقاص الوزن . My short video is in English.

Feb 22  Podcast video with Geoff Tansey on food, politics, capitalism, and health

Jan 23  LA Times guide to Japanese subscription snack boxes  Video Part II.  Part I is Jan 16 (same clip?)

Jan 18  New Hampshire Public Radio with Nick Capodice, Civics 101: the USDA

Jan 17  Podcast interview with Kathlyn Carney, Connecting the Dots.  Lisen on  Spotify or Apple Podcast

Jan 16  LA Times guide to Japanese subscription snack boxes (Video Part I).  Part II is Jan 23 (same clip?)

Jan 14  The Franklin Institute’s Ben Franklin Birthday celebration.  My talk comes first.  Others are from Eric Oberhalter and honoree Wendell Berry.   Use passcode $H81iALu

Jan 7  Baby Steps Nutrition Episode 40 on power and politics in the food system.

Jan 5  Interview with AJPH editor Alfredo Morabia on Ultra-Processed Food, Poverty, Obesity:  Audio;    Video.

2021

2021 Print media quotations: Marion Nestle News Clips Sep-Dec 2021;  The ones I knew about.

Dec  Civil Eats interview: An insider look at food and farming

Dec 17 A day in the life of a nutritionist.  Interview with Emily Henderson, News Medical Life Sciences.

Dec 8  Interview with Swedish Radio: Vi äter ihjäl oss (in Swedish)

Dec 1  Q and A with Global Alliance for the Future of Food

Nov 17  Fales Critical Topic panel on food luminaries

Nov 5  Escaped Sapiens podcast (video) with Shane Farnsworth.  Additional footage.

Oct 24  KPFA radio, Sunday Show, on salt

Oct 21  99% Invisible.  Episode 462—I can’t believe it’s pink margarine.  Podcast

Oct 18  Presentation to Baby-Led Weaning Summit on commercial baby foods

Sept 30  Audio interview with WHYY (NPR) Radio Times on the latest in food science (also with Anahad O’Connor)

Sept 10  Video interview with Chris MacAskill about Ancel Keys, Mediterranean diets, and other matters (29 min)

Aug      Review of  Let’s Ask Marion, American Journal of Public Health

Aug 23  interview with Ian Williams, Foreign Press Association of NY, on the UN Food Systems Summit (~1 hour)

Aug 21  Video podcast with Plant Chompers’ Chris MacAskill on saturated fat (I appear briefly at around minutes 6 and 32)

Aug 21 Video interview with Russian TV on sugars (in Russian).  I appear briefly at minute 2.

Aug 20  Food Junkies podcast, episode 34, on food addiction

Aug 9  Podcast with Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken : Building an ultraprocessed world (29 min).  And see tweet, Aug 10.

Aug 3  Podcast on Cheat about sugar vs. fat

July 26  Video interview with Reuters about the Subway tuna lawsuit

July 16  Interview with Scheer Intelligence (podcast), KCRW Los Angeles: Something’s Rotten in the Science of Food

June 8  Video of my interviewing Jocelyn Zuckerman about Planet Palm at Politics & Prose

May 27  Podcast, Science vs.  Pet food: How fancy should they feast?

May 25  Podcast: This or Something Better with Regan Nelson, on the politics of food.

May 18  Interview with Deepak Chopra.  Also available on YouTube, Facebook, and IGTV.

Apr 30  KPCC radio, L.A. on beef and climate change

Apr 7  NYU Dean’s Public Square series video (5 min) on food inequitiesMar 21  Podsongs.  My interview is here.  The podsong I inspired (?) is here.

Mar 17  CUNY Public Health.  Launch of Nick Freudenberg’s At What Cost (my talk starts at 28:00).

Mar 10  Texas Public Radio, San Antonio, with Dariush Mozaffarian on various nutrition topics (with technical glitches)

Feb 25  Panel discussion on multiculturalism and dietetics, Fales Critical Topics series

Jan 30  Podcast: Food Labels Revealed

Jan 29  Podcast with Stanley Ulijaszek’s Around the Table

Jan 23  Heritage Radio program on sugar politics, on Meat and Three

Jan 20  EcoFarm keynote session (my part starts at 24:50)

Jan 13 Oxford Food Conference, panel: Refreshing the Food System

Jan 13  Interview and talk with students at Chatham University, about Let’s Ask Marion

2020

Dec 23  Online story about Let’s Ask Marion in YNet (Israel) in Hebrew.  And here is the English (of sorts) translation.

Dec 20  Farm to Table: Revitalize rural America, podcast

Dec 16  Interview with Ronit Vered in Haaretz magazine (in Hebrew): Coronavirus and the food system.  Electronic link.  English translation.

Dec 16  Reuters, Appetite Growing for Alternative Meat (two brief clips)

Dec 7  Podcast with Doron Vaday and Nicole Blasi, Eatright Nutrition, on food politics

Dec 1   NYU Fales Library Critical Topics, Recalibrating the Restaurant Industry Recording.   Audio Transcript

Nov 22  CBS Morning News, on snacking (video)

Nov 18  Financial Times audio, how to eat sustainably.  Polly Gross is the other guest.

Nov 15  Podcast with Vegetarian Zen, about Let’s Ask.

Nov 12  Inaugural Food, Power, and Politics Lecture, University of Georgia

Nov 11 Rebound Talks Podcast, IE University (Spain), Antonio Colmenares, on Inner Workings of the Food System

Nov 11  Video interview with The Earth Locker, on food politics

Nov 8  Interview (video) with Craig Gordon on the Pandemic and America’s Food Crisis

Oct 31  Seattle Town Hall, on Let’s Ask

Oct 29  Inside Julia’s Kitchen, Heritage Radio

Oct 25  On the Menu with Ann & Peter Haigh (my segment is first)

Oct 21 NYU Steinhardt News on Let’s Ask

Oct 18  Interview with Jenna on Heritage Radio Eating Matters, about Let’s Ask

Oct 16  Bloomberg podcast with Neena Prasad

Sept 25  Your Best Life with Anna Victoria.    Access from Twitter.

Sept 18  Leonard Lopate Show, WBAI radio

Sept 17  Video interview with Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank, about Let’s Ask

Sept 16  Food Crunch podcast, Let’s Ask

Sept 14  Radio New Zealand, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan

Sept 11  Joshua Spodek podcast

Sept 10  Interview with Kate Cox and excerpt from Let’s Ask Marion in The Counter

Sept 7   American Public Media podcast, “A dairy giant gets milked.”  I’m quoted at about minute 14 about Dean Foods.

Sept 7    WBUR Here and Now, interview with Robin Young about Let’s Ask.  Also at NPR Illinois.

Sept 6   KPFA Live Sunday News Show

Sept  4    Marion Nestle Imagines an ‘Enlightened’ Approach to National Food Policy, except of Let’s Ask Marion in Civil Eats

Sept 2   Video interview with ChefAJ on the politics of food

Sept 2  Books on Pod, Let’s Ask

Sept 1  Kirkus review of Let’s Ask Marion

Sept 1 Stand Up with Pete Dominick, episode 178 Dr Marion Nestle on Food

Aug 31  Vera Tarman’s Sugar-free Septmber, webinar

July 30  One-minute video advertising my Big Ideas NYU course on food politics.

July 19  RT Television interview about the dietary guidelines.  And on the RT website

July 15  Kirkus Reviews, Let’s Ask Marion

June 29  Wisconsin vegetable gardener show, podcast

June 18  Podcast interview with Gill Eapen’s Scientific Sense.

June 15  Review of Unsavory Truth on Aym Playing

May 21  Interview about industry funding on Fueled with Molly Kimball.

May 18  NYU Food Studies graduation remarks (short) start at 36:11.

Apr 26  Radio interview with Philip Moldari, Sunday Show, KPFA, Berkeley

Jan 17  The 1-minute video of Congreso Futuro, Santiago, Chile.  I appear for 1 second.

Jan 15  Video of my presentation to Congreso Futuro, Santiago, Chile, via CNN

Jan 15  Two short answers to questions at FAO’s Regional Office in Santiago, Chile.  Video 1: on what governments can do about childhood obesity.    Video 2: on food choices in an unhealthy food environment.

2019

2019 summary from NYU’s PR office of newspaper and magazine articles in which I am quoted

Dec 27  Podcast with Joshua Spodek

Dec 5  Podcast with Bill Nye: the secret to your diet

Nov 26 Radio interview with Brian Lehrer about the dairy industry.

Nov 22  Video summary of panel discussion on essential oral health care for all, UN High-Level Meeting side event (my main clip is at 5:07).

Nov 14  Panel discussion at Hunter’s Food Policy Center about Bettina Siegel’s Kid Food

Nov 2  Podcast with Alfredo Morabia, about the SNAP papers in the American Journal of Public Health

Oct 28  The Recommended Dose with Ray Moynihan (audio, Australia)

Oct 19  Video interview with Chris Hedges about Unsavory Truth (filmed about a year ago).

Oct 17  Video of United Nations panel on World Food Day.  My presentation runs from about minute 48 to 53.

Oct 4  Tufts Conference on the 50th anniversary of the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health.  My presentation is at 3.26.20.  On Vimeo, go to Panel 3: mine is from 17.10 to 23:15.

Oct 4  Podcast “clinical conversation” interview related to my keynote at the Obesity Medical Association meeting in Boston.

Sept 20 Video of my talk at the Oxford Food Symposium on July 12: “Power in the food system: Big Food vs. everyone else.”

Sept 6  Podcast with the Higherside on food politics

Aug 26  TVO (Canada) The Agenda on “can we trust nutrition science?”  The preview.  The 26-minute segment.  The transcript.

Aug 7  Video of my lecture tour to Brazil, May 7-13

Aug 7  Video of my lecture on Unsavory Truth at the University of Rio de Janeiro, May 13

Aug 2  ABC Radio (Australia).  The politics of nutrition (Gerardo Otero is the other guest).  Full episode is here.

July 31  Video Conversation (in English, with Portuguese subtitles) with Aliança pela Alimentação Adequada e Saudável (Brazil)

July 13  Video of lecture to Oxford Food Symposium:  Power in the Food System: Big Food vs. Everyone Else

June 24 Rebroadcast of KALW’s Rose Aguilar’s interview about Unsavory Truth

June 10 Video interview at FAO’s Future of Food conference, Rome.  The interview is also on Facebook.

May 29  Christopher Gardner’s Nutrition Science video online course at Stanford: I’m interviewed in Module 1 (Nutrition Guidelines: Science and Politics).

May 25  Podcast interview with NYU President Andy Hamilton: transcript

Mar 26  Editora Elefante YouTube clip on Unsavory Truth, Portuguese translation

Mar 11  Interview with VegSource with Jeff Nelson about Unsavory Truth (audio with slides).

Mar 5  TVO (Canada) The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Battling bias in nutrition research.  Also on YouTube.  And in transcript.

Mar 4  Association for the Study of Food and Society, Member Spotlight.  Online interview.

Mar 1 Canadian Broadcasting Marketplace, arsenic in rice (YouTube).   Online article.  Two-minute video promo.

Feb 26  Interview with Laura Schmidt at UCSF’s Health Policy Center.  Food, nutrition, and politics.  UCTV

Feb 19  Food Politics 2019: “An Agenda for the Food Movement.” (Audio )

Feb 17 Cover story based on Unsavory Truth, San Francisco Chronicle: “The myth-making of food”

Feb 12  UC Berkeley School of Journalism: Food Politics 2019: “Nutrition Science Under Siege.” 

Feb 7  Conversation with Laura Schmidt at UCSF, podcast: food, nutrition, and politics

Feb 12 UC Berkeley Journalism School Food Politics 2019: “Food Policy in the Trump Era.” (Audio)

Feb 5  KQED San Francisco, Michael Krasny’s Forum on Unsavory Truth

Feb 2  Sarah Boseley reviews Unsavory Truth in The Lancet

Jan/Feb  Nutrition Action Healthletter: Peter Lurie’s editorial on Unsavory Truth

Jan 25  Interview with Holly Friend of LS:N Global, on Unsavory Truth

Jan 22  MPR Radio interview, obesity in America (Deborah Cohen is the other guest)

Jan 22  KPFK radio interview , Feminist Magazine with Lynn Harris Ballen about Unsavory Truth

Jan 21  Cookery by the Book, podcast with Suzy Chase about Unsavory Truth

Jan 16  Kara Goldin’s podcast on Unstoppable, Unsavory Truth

Jan 16  New Yorker: For the Love of Bread  on low-carb diets

Jan 16  Podcast with Kara Goldin, Unstoppable, about Unsavory Truth

Jan 11 Podcast interview with Knowledge@Wharton about the shutdown’s effect on FDA

Jan 6   Video of Unsavory Truth talk at Politics and Prose, DC

2018

Annual summary From NYU’s PR office: newspaper, magazine articles in which I am quoted

Dec 27 Podcast with Joshua Spodek on changing the food system

Dec 19  Podcast with Max Lugavere, The Genius Life Episode 39 (iTunes), on Unsavory Truth

Dec 17  Radio interview with Rose Aguilar, KALW San Francisco on Unsavory Truth

Dec 14  Video interview with Aliança pela Alimentação Adequada e Saudável (Brazil) on front-of-pack labels

Dec 13  Lecture on Unsavory Truth (video) at Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center

Dec 13  Online interview at PLoS Blog about Unsavory Truth

Dec 12  Podcast with Wooden Teeth on Unsavory Truth

Dec 6  NYU Journalism Kavli Conversation on Science Communication with Paul Greenberg, moderated by Robert Lee Hotz

Dec 3  Interview (podcast) with Bhavani Jaroff of iEat Green on Unsavory Truth

Nov 30  Conor Purcell interview for Undark’s Five Questions

Nov 28  Podcast interview with Monica Eng on Unsavory Truth: Chewing episode 55

Nov 26  Lisa Held on Unsavory Truth, Edible Manhattan

Nov 19  Interview with Gabrielle Lipton, Landscape News, on Unsavory Truth

Nov 18  Video of interview with Dean Malcolm Clemens, Forum at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco (audio file).

Nov 17  Video of talk to Soul Food Forum, Menlo Park on Unsavory Truth.  The 60 second version.

Nov 15  Video of keynote at launch of UCSF Food Industry Documents Library (my talk is in Part I: 14:30)

Nov 12  Jennifer Bowden on Unsavory Truth in New Zealand’s The Listener.

Nov 12  Interview with Jesse Mulligan, Radio New Zealand, on Unsavory Truth

Nov 11 Podcast of interview with Tiffani Patton of Real Food, at San Francisco’s Ferry Building.  Read about this discussion of Unsavory Truth here, and here.

Nov 7  Podcast interview with The Potter Report on Unsavory Truth

Nov 7  A. Pawlowski.  What are superfoods?  The truth about blueberries, dark chocolate and pomegranate.  Today.

Nov 6  Interview with Paul Thacker about Unsavory Truth.  Tonic.

Nov 4  Lorin Fries.  Who decides what you eat?  (Hint: it’s not only you).  Forbes.

Nov 3  Chicago Humanities Festival, interview with Ji Suk Yi (video)

Oct 31 Review from New York Magazine’s The Cut

Oct 31 Review of Unsavory Truth by Natalia Murakhver

Oct 31  Interview with Julia Belluz in Vox

Oct 30  Excerpt from Unsavory Truth on Medium.com: “When Big Soda Started Stalking Me”

Oct 30  NPR radio interview with Brian Lehrer on Unsavory Truth

Oct 30  Interview with Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit Healthyish, on how we eat

Oct 29  RT America video interview on Boom Bust about Unsavory Truth.  Now on YouTube.

Oct 21  Sourcing matters, waste not, want not.  Podcast, episode 44.

Oct 18  Interview with Maggie Tauranac on Unsavory Truth, FoodPrint

Oct 16 Podcast with Danielle Nierenberg on Unsavory Truth and other matters

Oct 12 Vimeo introduction to Grand Dame Award, Les Dames d’Escoffier

Oct 3  Interview with Danielle Nierenberg at Food Tank Summit on food waste (video–segment starts at 2:08)

Sep 5  Podcast interview on Lunch Agenda  with Kirsten (Kiko) Bourne about teaching about food in schools.

Sep 5  Everyone eats: an interview with Marion Nestle (print)  Hélène Ducros for EuropeNow

Aug 29 Heirloom Meals radio on food memories, among other things

Aug 7  BYURadio (Utah) interview with Julie Rose about plant milks

July 13  Twitter interview with New Food Economy on lab-based meat

July 9  Interview with Rizio, Inter-Actions 2018;1(1):July-August.

July 5  Goldberg R.  Food Citizenship: Food System Advocates in an Era of Distrust.  Oxford University Press.  Chapter 1.  Health and Nutrition: Interview with Marion Nestle:1-13.  Video online

July 4  Interview with Paul Terry, American Journal of Health Promotion 2018, Vol. 32(6) 1329-1332

June   Interview about nutrition research with ERD Examine.com Research Digest 2018;44(2):13-15.

June 27  Anna Brones, portrait and interview

June 20  Washington Post Live Health 202 (video) panel with Mary Beth Albright and David Kessler

June 12  Vox video on Why Diets Fail.  For the full video, sign in to Netflix, search for “Explained,” and find this episode.

May 31  Marion Nestle looks back at 30 years of agitating for better food, by Lisa Held, Civil Eats.

May 10  How to make a career out of digging up facts.  Palatte.  Interview with Jenny Champion.

May 8  Boston University conference on public health in the Trump era.  My talk on food and nutrition policy begins at 2:24:25.

Apr 22  Podcast from the Connected Table on food politics

Apr 18  The Daily Show, interview with Desi Lydic on raw water

Mar 21 Lecture on food system politics to UC Berkeley’s Edible Education course

Mar 20   Q and A with Brian Rinker, Berkeley Wellness Letter, “Can our food system be fixed?”

Mar 19  Conversation with Alice Waters at Berkeley’s International House, moderated by Kris Madson (starts at about 8 min)

March 16  Q and A: Can our food system be fixed?  Berkeley Wellness

Mar 11  Nobel Prize Dialogue Panels, Tokyo, Video.  Stream 2

Feb 21  Notah Begay III (NBIII) Foundation Healthy Beverage Summit: keynote (slides)

Feb 12 Finnish Public Radio interview about Unsavory Truth (Google Translate, English)

Feb 2  Connect with Top Public Health Professors on Twitter

Jan 31 Profile in New Scientist: The Unpalatable Truth about Your Favorite Foods

Jan 18 Short video summary of Voedingscentrum conference in The Hague (in Dutch)

Jan 13  Interview with BioNieuws on food marketing to children (in Dutch)

Jan 3  NBC News, THINK (video) How food companies are influencing the science of what we eat

2017

Dec  News clips with quotations, summary from NYU’s PR office

Dec   Interview with Cristel Zoebisch, Food Starters

Dec 4  Food Loves Tech panel on new technologies in food (video).

Nov 17: Interview, Navnet skjemmer, Helga (Norway): page 23, page 24

Oct 31  Interview with Kristen Harper on Soda Politics, Voice of America

Oct 15 Interview with Jenna Liut on Heritage Radio about fad diets

Oct 9  Chewing, podcast on soda taxes

Oct 4  TV film: Journey of Greek food, episode 5. on Greek cuisine

Oct 4  Interview with KCSB radio, Santa Barbara, on Nestlé’s marketing in Brazil

Sep 28  Nestlé Nutrition Symposium lecture: Nutrition advocacy in action: the politics of sugar vs. fat

Sep 26  Seminar to the World Health Organization nutrition section on Buying Nutrition Science (WebEx).

Aug 3  To Your Health radio with Dr. David Friedman

July 30  Here’s How I Think This Works, Podcast on food

July 18   Adam Ruins Everything (video).  Watch the wrist bit.

July  Interview with American Society for Nutrition newsletter

June 18   Brief video clip from interview with Poder del Consumidor

June 7  BevNet.com report on lecture at Harvard conference on school food

Spring  Alumni profile: Marion Nestle, Food Maven.  MCB [Molecular and Cell Biology] Transcript, Spring 2017:5.

Mar 29  Keynote, 2017 Art & Science of Health Promotion conference, Colorado Springs.  Download Video  Download MP3

Mar 21  U.C. Berkeley Graduate Arts and Sciences Barbara Weinstock Memorial lecture on the Morals of Trade: 21st Century Food Movement (71 minutes) Video, Interview, and Audio are also online.

Mar 5 Exploring Mind and Body, podcast on food politics

Mar 1  Print interview: Stacking the deck: How industry funding can influence science and create confusion.  Nutrition Action Healthletter:3-5.

Feb 28  Public Health Institute, Cuernavaca: lecture on research policies (video–requires ARF, WebEx)

Feb 27  Public Health Institute, Cuernavaca: lecture on conflicts of interest (video–requires ARF , WebEx)

Feb 24  Public Health Institute, Cuernavaca: lecture on policies to improve diets (video–requires ARF , WebEx)

Feb 23  Public Health Institute, Cuernavaca: lecture on policies to reduce sugar-sweetened beverages (video–requires ARF , WebEx)

Feb 18 (a guess)  I recorded a video about sugar in soft drinks for El Poder del Consumidor: YouTube listing

Feb 1  Podcast with The Politics Guys on food and health

Jan 18 Talk (“BetaZone”) at World Economic Forum, Davos

Jan 6  Slate podcast on peanuts

2016

Summary: quotations in media, 2016 (thanks to NYU’s PR office)

Dec 31 Podcast: big soda, big obesity.  Reinventing the supermarket.

Dec 9  Interview: Professorn som tar fighten med livsmedelsjättarna: ”Jag behöver inte vara rädd om min karriär,” Veckans Affärer (Stockholm)

Dec 9  Video: Nobel Week Dialogue (my part begins at 1:57 and continues for 8 minutes)  Or go right to it here on YouTube.

Nov 22 Video: The way we think about sugar is going to change.  HowStuffWorks (my part is audio)

Nov 9  Interview on Heritage radio on food politics

Nov 5  Dishing Up Nutrition podcast on soda politics

Oct 26  CCTV interview with Karina Huber on soda issues (also on YouTube)

Oct 10  Interview with Russia’s Channel 1 in a documentary about food (in Russian).  My appearance is from 3:15 to 4:43.

Oct 3   ABC Classic FM with Margaret Throsby (Australia)

Sept 26 Heritage Radio with Katy Keiffer on sugar-funded research

Sept 26 WBUR radio On Point on sugar-funded research

Sept 17  CBS News (TV) on sugar-funded research (my clip is at ~1.35)

Sept 14  NPR To the Point on sugar-funded research

Sept 14 Brian Lehrer NPR radio on sugar-funded research

Sept 13 Global News Canada on sugar-funded research

Sept 13 NPR on sugar-funded research

Sept 13  PBS News Hour TV on sugar-funded research

Sept 12  Interview with Radio Sputnik Moscow on sugar-funded research

Sept 8  Podcast interview with Slow Food’s Richard McCarthy (one hour)

August 12  Audio interview with Anna Lappé, Real Food Media

August 5  ABC One TV interview, trailer.  The 28-minute interview.

August 3  KCRW Morning Edition on GMO labeling

July 22  The Reading List: Marion Nestle: A feast of books

July 7  Morning Wave in Busan (South Korea) radio, on school meals

July 5  Barth B.  Food, farming and the 2016 election: a conversation with Marion Nestle.  Modern Farmer

June 22  CBC Radio ONE on fat and sugar (also available on livestream)

June 20  Lecture on Soda Politics, Mann Library, Cornell

June 20  Interview in Haaretz—-in Hebrew.  Here is an English translation (thanks to Hemi Weingarten).   Photos.

May 25  The 21st show on the FDA’s new food label (radio)

May 18  CBS News on the National Academies’ GMO report

May 17  Nutrition Wonk (Tufts) podcast on Soda Politics

April 27  Lecture at Cornell’s Mann Library, on Soda Politics (video)

April 14  Opinion piece in Reforma.com on Soda Politics (in Spanish).

April 14 Article in La Jornada about my lecture in Mexico City on Soda Politics (in Spanish)

April 12  ABC TV Lateline on the Australian Paradox, with Emma Alberici (transcript)

April 7    Lecture on Soda Politics at Hofstra University (podcast)

March 24 BYU radio Matt Townsend show, on Soda Politics

March 21  WOUB Digital SoundCloud, interview on food politics

March 10 ABC 7:30, TV interview with Sarah Whyte on Coca-Cola’s funding of research: Sweet Talk

March 3  Podcast with Radio UF ~ Utrikespolitiska föreningen i Uppsala 

March 3  Julia Belluz, Vox, on my collection of industry-funded studies

March 2 ABC-FM interview with Margaret Throsby, Classic FM, on Soda Politics

March 1 Lecture to Sydney Ideas: Soda Politics: Lessons from the Food Movement, U. Sydney

March 1 ABC News radio and print interview with David Taylor, on Soda Politics

Feb 29  Interview (online) with ABC Sydney on Soda Politics

Feb 27  “At Lunch With” column in the Sydney Morning Herald: “the powerful foodie”

Feb 24  Podcast of lecture on Soda Politics at the University of Melbourne

Feb 22 Lecture at symposium at Deakin University, Melbourne (this is an mp4 file requiring a lengthy download)

Feb 19 Radio interview with Mark Colvin, ABC News (Sydney) on Soda Politics

Feb 19 Podcast interview with Colvinius, ABC News (Sydney) on Soda Politics

Feb 19 Interview with Gesunde Stadt magazine, Früling 2016 (in German)

Feb 18  BTR Media podcast (my interview on Soda Politics is at 13.01)

Feb 7  Wisconsin Public Radio interview on Soda Politics

Feb 1  Interview (online) with Chris Radicz of the American Society for Nutrition on Soda Politics

Jan 31  Interview (online) with Peter Hess, Science Line

Jan 29  Interview with BreakThroughRadio’s Rebecca Chodorkoff on Soda Politics

Jan 27  Gastropodcast on calories

Jan 20 Interview with Suzi Phillips, U. Auckland on Soda Politics

Jan 14  Interview with University of Auckland, School of Population Health

Jan 14 Podcast with Autumn Smith and Chas Smith of Paleo Valley on food politics

Jan 11 Podcast of interview with Wharton radio on Chipotle’s problems

Jan 7  CBS News TV interview on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines, and print and radio interviews on the Guidelines with NBC News, Washington Post, USA Today, TIME magazine, Politico,  NY Daily News, Vox, MedPage Today, Christian Science Monitor 

2015

Dec 22  Hunter College Food Policy Breakfast Series (part 1), lecture on Soda Politics.  Part 2 and Part 3.

Dec 19 Business Insider, 7 ways the soda industry follows the tobacco industry playbook to the letter

Dec 17  Interview with Diet Detective, Food Policy Guru

Dec 16  Podcast with Steve Mirsky of Scientific American on Soda Politics

Dec 14 Lecture to CUNY Food Policy Center on Soda Politics

Dec 5  KCRW radio, Evan Kleiman’s Good Food on Soda Politics

Dec 3 Tess Sohngen’s video based on Soda Politics lecture at Miami University, Ohio

Dec 1  Supermarket News’ Disruptors 2015, Shaking up the business world 

Dec 1  KALW radio San Francisco interview (one hour) on Soda Politics 

Nov 23 Soda Politics podcast, New America NYC

Nov 20 Interview with KUOW radio, Seattle, on GMO salmon (my segment starts at 34.20)

Nov 16  Video blurb for the Edible magazines

Nov 13  Interview with Charlotte station WFAE on Krispy Kreme Challenge at the U of North Carolina

Nov 11 Interview with Reserve Editorial Team, In the Kitchen, on Soda Politics

Nov 10 Berkeley Food Institute Soda Politics launch

Nov 6  Audio recording of Q and A talk at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club, with Dr. Alice Huan-mei Chen, on Soda Politics

Nov 2  Video from McDougall’s Advanced Study Weekend, on Eat, Drink, Vote

Nov 1  The New Republic’s  Corby Kummer writes about our visit to World of Coca-Cola

Nov 1  Interview Q & A in Nutrition Action Healthletter, November 2015:1-5

Oct 28  The Seattle Times on Soda Politics

Oct 27  Interview in the Boston Globe on sugars

Oct 27  The Salt on Soda Politics

Oct 27 San Antonio Public Radio on Soda Politics

Oct 27 On Point radio on meat and cancer risk

Oct 20  Video of presentation to New York Times Food for Tomorrow Conference on soda taxes

Oct 19  Article in Veille Action pour de Saines Habitudes de Vie (in French)

Oct 19  Interview with Lingyi Hou for NYU’s Washington Square News

Oct 15  KUT News radio, interview with Tom Philpott about Soda Politics

Oct 14 Time magazine: Should you count calories?

Oct 14 Diane Rehm show, WAMU Radio, Twitter Q&A, on healthy food systems

Oct 12  Ask the experts: 2015’s best and worst foodie cities for your wallet

Oct 9 The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC Radio, on Soda Politics

Oct 9 Interview Q & A with Nancy Huehnergarth on Huffington Post about Soda Politics

Oct 8 The Diane Rehm Show, WAMU Radio, Washington DC, on Soda Politics

Oct 8  Interview Q & A with Andy Bellatti at Civil Eats, about Soda Politics

Oct 7  MP3 interview with Carl Lenoe on Super Human Radio, about Soda Politics

Oct 6  CSPAN Book TV recording of book event for Soda Politics

Oct 6  Interview with Dr. Mercola about Soda Politics

Oct 5  Interview with Roberto Ferdman in the Washington Post about Soda Politics 

Oct 5  Foodline radio interview about Soda Politics

Oct 4  Interview with Johnny Adamic of the Daily Beast about Soda Politics

Oct 2  Interview with Jamie Ducharme of Boston Magazine online about Soda Politics

Sept 28  Interview with Dr. Mercola on Soda Politics.  Condensed version.  Full version.

Sept 27  James Hamblin in The Atlantic on panel discussion on sugar at NYU

Sept 25  Interview with Julia Belluz, Vox, on Soda Politics

Sept 24  Interview with Kiera Butler, Mother Jones blog, on Coca-Cola’s transparency initiative

Sept 21  Interview with Katy Kieffer, Heritage Radio, on Soda Politics

Sept 11  Organic Life:  Marion Nestle’s favorite organic books

Sept 10  Interview with Natural Path on Soda Politics

Sept 4  Meat industry has always opposed and influenced dietary guidelines in US.  Down to Earth.

Sept 4   Interview with Patrick Mustain in Scientific American on Big Soda’s co-opting of US mayors

Aug 25  Interview with National Radio, New Zealand on industry funding of research

Aug 17  Interview with Brian Lehrer (WNYC radio) on Coca-Cola’s funding of scientists.

Aug 11 CNN Money interview with Christina Alesci on added sugars

Aug 7  Interview with Washington Post about this blog’s discussion of conflicts of interest in research.

July 17 Brief comment in CBS News (video) story on craft sodas

July 13 Interview for Ananke Magazine with Lovely Claire Dangalan, on career

July  Carter J. Interview with Marion Nestle.  In: Food for Thought: Feeding the People, Protecting the Planet. Aspenia [Aspen Institute Italia] 2015;67:101-105.

July  Carter J. Intervista a Marion Nestle.  Come cambiano le politiche alimentary.  In: Fame Zero: Rinascimento agricolo.  Aspenia [Revista di Aspen Institute Italia] 2015;69:198-202.

June 16 Goals of large food companies, talk at McDougall’s Advanced Study Weekend (video)

June 16  Interview with John McDougall, on popularity of low-carb diets (video)

June 15 Podcast, Exploring Mind and Body, with Drew Taddia, on food politics

May 18 Podcast with Katy Kieffer, Heritage Radio, on the Milan Food Expo

May 11 Podcast (audio) with Lindsay Beyerstein, Point of Inquiry, on calories–clearing up the confusion.

May 7  Video clip of Q and A from lecture at Cattolica University, Piacenza, Italy.

April 28  Brian Lehrer on Chipotle’s non-GMO policy: perception over science?  WNYC

April 22 The Connected Table LIVE on iHeart.com with Melanie Young (podcast)

April 11  Radio Islam on From Farm to Fork.

April 8  Brian Lehrer show on Food Babe v. Science Babe, WNYC

April 1  Grand Rounds at Columbia‘s Mailman School of Public Health

March 31 Online interview with Columbia University’s Mailman FPOP student group

March 30  Conversation at EB 2015

March 30  Washington Post America Answers conference panel on why we eat the way we do (video)

March 25  Airtalk KPCC radio on the Heinz-Kraft merger

March 24 Video interview on Brazil’s dietary guidelines

March 13  Video interview (9 minutes of excerpts) from McDougall’s Advanced Study Weekend

March 13  OZY video on the soda tax in Mexico

March 5  OZY video on additives in our food

March 2  KCBS radio, In Depth.  Food, Our Diet, and Politics (scroll down to March 2)

February 25   Voting with our forks: an (online) interview with Marion Nestle. Kaiser Permanente Food for Health

February 23  Interview (online) with Julia Belluz, Marion Nestle on what really influences eating, Voz

February 14 Podcast interview: At the Table with Clark Wolf and Marcy Smothers

February 10 Video of Knight lecture at UC Berkeley: Food Politics in the Age of Health Care Reform

January 30  Video interview for Cornell’s Philosophy 2411 Ethics of Eating  course, with professor Andrew Chignell (41 minutes)

January 13 Video Interview with Luis Quevedo NTN24 (in Spanish)

January 7  Interview: Marion Nestle y food politics.  El Piscolabas

2014 

December 2  Radio interview with Evan Kleiman on menu labeling (scroll down)

December 1  Interview with Katy Kieffer, Heritage Radio, about menu labeling and other matters.

November 21  Interview with Yvette Cabrera of Heritage Radio about Berkeley’s soda tax win.

November 11  New York Times Food for Tomorrow conference, panel on healthy eating with Michael Moss, Kristy Del Coro, and Julie Mennella (video).

November 9  CSPAN2 BookTV interview about Food Politics

November 7  Interview with Sara Gandolfi of Sette, A volte serve una legge per controllare le calorie.

October 31  The Sweet Truth–A Dialogue with Corby Kummer.  Video from the James Beard Foundation’s food conference.

October 28  Lecture on Eat, Drink, Vote at FoodSHIFT, St. John’s Medical Center, Jackson Hole

October 10  To the Point, KCRW radio:Big Soda pours in Big Money to Stop Tax on Sugary Drinks.

October 9  Entrevista con Carlos Puig, En15 TV, on Mexico’s soda tax (in Spanish).

September 30  Radio interview with Rashi Mangalick – KFAI Radio on food politics.

September 24 Diane Rehm show (radio) on soda industry announcements.

September 18  Interview on NBC New York’s Better Get Boquero (video) about retailers’ failures in food inspection.

August 21  Science Forward, The Challenge of Food.  This CUNY teaching video is also on YouTube, and comes with resources for classes.

August 19  KQED radio on the Petaluma slaughterhouse indictments, Forum with Michael Krasny

August 15  On Point radio with Tom Ashbrook, on fast casual/healthy restaurants

August 5  Online interview with Sharona Weiss on food advocacy.

July 24  Online interview with Dr. Henry Black on “Gluten-Free: Mania or Medical Necessity?  MedScape

July 22  The James Beard Foundation has just released its generic Leadership Award video (my award was last fall).

June 10  Radio interview with Marketplace on the fight over white potatoes in WIC

May 31  Video: appearance with Melissa Harris Perry on MSNBC on Michelle Obama’s school lunch problems.

May 29 Video: appearance with Chris Hayes on MSNBC on school lunch problems.

April 28  Podcast with Charles Margulis of the Center for Environmental Health on GMO labels.

April 14  New Hampshire Public Radio interview on vitamin D

April 7  Heritage Radio interview with Katy Keiffer on FDA’s problems with GRAS status for food additives.

March 26  Radio interview with BBC on the fat tax

March 13  REAL Food Innovator Awards presentation video (scroll down)

March 13   Food Bites with Edible Charlotte (online print interview)

March 12  HeritageRadio on the food label

March  Interview with Alex Jamieson about nutrition education on the 20th anniversary of SuperSize Me!.

February 27  Radio interview with KCRW on the new food label.

February 26  TV interview ABC Eyewitness News on the new food label.

February 26  Radio interview with Brian Lehrer on the new food label.

February 26  CBS TV interview about bagged salads.

February 25  Prevention Magazine’s 11 Founding Foodies

February 20  CSPAN video of panel discussion about Nick Freudenberg’s book, Lethal but Legal.

February 21  Interview (print) with Endocrinology about the Brazilian dietary guidelines.

February 17 Radio interview (and transcript) with Lynne Rossetto Kaspar’s Splendid Table on the farm bill.

February 13  Podcast and transcription of interview with REAL (Responsible Eating And Living)

February 12 Interview with Swiss Public Radio on functional foods

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February 12  Radio interview with The TakeAway on school food.

February 12  Heritage Radio on the farm bill

January 22  Interview with Isabela Sattamini for the World Public Health NutritioInterview with Swiss Public Radion Association online journal.

January 20  On Heritage Radio talking to Katy Keiffer about dietary supplements.

 

2013: for media about Eat, Drink, Vote, click here.

December 20  WNYC interview with Leonard Lopate on Food Friday.

December 16 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio interview with Jill Eisen.  Stuffed Part 2.

December 13  Video: The internationalization of the obesity epidemic (Cornell festschrift for Per Pinstrup-Anderson).

December 12  Interview with Brian Lehrer on Mayor Bloomberg’s public health legacy.

December 10  Interview (TV) with Dr. Oz on chicken from China.

December 9  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio interview with Jill Eisen, Stuffed Part 1.

December 7  CSPAN interview with Pedro Echevarria on genetically modified food labeling (45 minutes).

November 8  Radio interview with Brian Lehrer on FDA’s removal of GRAS status from trans fat.

November 1  Interview with Aaron Task on Yahoo (video): the food stamp cuts

October 25  Huffington Post on James Beard Leadership Award.

October 24  NYU Steinhardt News on the James Beard award.

October 22 Introduction to my James Beard Leadership award (video)

October 22  Remarks (video) at James Beard food conference (scroll down to #6)

September 26  Franklin & Marshall Common Hour lecture, video

September 24  Podcast with SeaChange on empathy.

August 31  Podcast interview with Meghan Telpner.  Also, blog interview (undated).

August 23  Lecture to European Society for Environmental History, Munich

July 18  Interview with Heritage Radio about the NYC Mayoral Candidate’s Forum

July 17  Livestream of NYC Mayoral Candidate’s Forum, which I moderated.

June 20  Interview for the Village Voice with Eve Turow on my history with food studies.

June 19  “Evolutionaries” interview with Heritage Radio.

June 17  Video interview with James Andrews of Food Safety News.

June 4   Podcast interview with REAL (Responsible Eating and Living) on the tenth anniversary edition of Food Politics.

June 2    Interview with Revista Foodie, Uruguay (in Spanish): “Marion Nestle: Activista Foodie” (there’s a video that goes with it).

May 12  Interview on Heritage Radio with Katy Keiffer on the tenth anniversary of Food Politics.

May 10 Interview on WRVO radio with Lorraine Rapp and Linda Lowen on food labels.

May 4   Report on the Food Book Fair panel discussion of food companies’ role in food systems.

May    Marion Nestle: Food is a political issue.  World Nutrition 2013;4(5).

April 28  Interview with Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC about GMOs.  And here’s the second section.

April 8 Interview with Robin Davis of The Columbus Dispatch about food politics.

March 28  Video interview with Lathe Poland for the documentary Carb-Loaded.

March 28 Interview with Nevada Public Radio on whether food stamps should only pay for “good” food.

February 26  Interview with KPCC on the horsemeat scandal.

February 8  Interview with Mauro Rosati of L’Unità on obesità infantile.

February 7 TV Interview with Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, with Peter Pringle on A Place at the Table (hunger in America)

January 28  NPR interview with Dan Charles about Derek Yach and PepsiCo

January 26  Mrs. Green’s World with Kelly King

January 16  Interview with BeverageDaily.com on Coca-Cola’s “anti-obesity” ads.

January 14 Online interview with Lauroly on World Wise Beauty

January 14  Video interview with Meghan Telpner‘s Making Love in the Kitchen

January 10  Video interview on Star Talk, co-hosts Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Eugene Mirman, with Anthony Bourdain, about the science of cooking (sort of).

2012

December 16  Interview with Katy Keiffer on Heritage Radio, with Cristin Couzens, on sugar.

November 25  Interview with Lynne Rossetto Kaspar at the Splendid Table on the farm bill

November 24  Interview with Rena Nagarajan in the Times of India: “Give them food, not nutrient-packed pills.”

November 17 Interview with Maggie Fox of NBC News on the demise of Twinkies.

November 13 Video interview with NewsHouse at Syracuse University (6.40 minutes).

October 12  Interview with Childhood Obesity (21012;8:421-422) on Kids Don’t Need Kids’ Foood.

September undated  Podcast interview with Trevor Jackson of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) on corporate influences on obesity.

September 10  New York Times blog debate on whether organics are worth it.

September 7 Radio interview with Brian Lehrer on whether organics are worth it.

August 9 Radio interview with Patt Morrison, KPCC, on Diet Coke’s 30th birthday.

August 6  Interview with Alexandra Zissu on Abesmarket.com about the meaning of “natural.”

June 28  Interview on Food Sleuth radio with Melinda Hemmelgarn, KOPN.  Also on Public Radio Exchange and on iTunes.

June 22  Review in the Daily Meal of my speech on the farm bill.

June 20  CBS TV interview on pizza companies objections to menu labeling

June 20 BBC TV interview on the people who made us fat (I’m in there someplace)

June 20  Interview on Huffington Post with Danielle Nierenberg based on an interview in a book produced by Barilla. There may be some audio with this too.

July 18 Presentation on SNAP at capitol hill briefing (video)

June 14  Video interview with Aaron Task on Yahoo about who profits from food stamps.

June 6 NPR All Things Considered on Disney’s announcement on kids’ marketing.

June 4 Brownfield Ag News interview with Tom Steever on FDA’s decision not to allow HFCS to be called corn sugar

June 1  Heritage radio clips on obesity.

May 23 Radio interview with Leonard Lopate WNYC, with Peter Kaminsky

May 21 Print interview with Revital Federbush for an Israeli women’s magazine, mostly about dairy foods I’m told (it’s in Hebrew, which I cannot read, alas).

May 8  Interview with Eliot Spitzer on Viewpoint

April 15 Interview with Katy Kieffer on Heritage Radio’s Straight–No Chaser.

April 14 Interview with SunnySideUp radio, Lexington, KY.

April 13  Interview with CBS News online: 10 myths about calories, busted.

April 11  Interview with Dr. Joe Schwarcz in Montreal (podcast)

April 11  Interview about Why Calories Count on Taste Matters with Mitchell Davis on Heritage Radio

April 5  Interview Q and A for the NYU/Steinhardt website.

March 21  Radio interview with KPCC ‘s Patt Morrison on Sugar v. Corn Refiners

March 9  Audio interview with Ben Greenfield on food politics.

February 21  Interview with Cornell Chronicle about calorie talk.

February 1: Interview with the Boston Globe on the farm bill.

January 16: Interview with Louisa Kasden, Boston Phoenix Stuff Magazine, on my upcoming talk on the farm bill at the Boston Museum of Science.

January 5: NPR interview with Joy Wang on cleaning out your kitchen.

January 2012:  Interview with Juliann Schaffer in Today’s Dietitian.

2011
November 11   Splendid Table with Lynn Rossetto Kaspar, radio interview on the farm bill (starts at minute 7:05)

October 28  Panel discussion at Grand Central Station on the occasion of Consumer Reports’ 75th birthday (with Urvashi Rangan, Willie Neuman, and Bill Marler).

October 15  Radio interview with KCRW’s Even Kleiman on corn sugar.

October 2  Radio interview with Patrick Martins and Katy Kieffer on food politics,  Heritage Radio, the Main Course

September 22  Interview in the Lethbridge Herald (Alberta, Canada) on lecture at the University of Lethbridge

September 19  Interview with NourishLife about food politics

September 13 My politics of food lecture to UC Berkeley’s Edible Education 101 course is available in video online.

September 1  KCRW Warren Olney on “blah chicken, bland tomatoes (Barry Estabrook), and the food revolution (me).

Fall    Interview with Sarah Eva Kamenetz, dining editor, Washington Square News, the Food Issue.  My interview is on page 25.

August 28 Radio interview with Radio Health Journal on health claims.

August 25 Entrevista con Flor Codagnone in Cukmi (Argentina), in Spanish.

August 20   Reviews of Food Politics and What to Eat at Weekend Eating Reading with Eat with Joy

August 5 Interview with David Freeman of CBS News on a study of the high cost of produce.

August 2  Interview with Consumer Reports about McDonald’s Happy Meals makeover

August   Qualigeo-EU, first issue. My interview about food safety begins on page 70.

July 19    Radio interview with Ed Dodge’s Joy’s of Healthy Living on food politics

July 19 Video interview with Independent Sources on marketing to kids.

July 6  CNN Eatocracy video on eating on the subway

June 20  Interview with Jennifer Abbasi of EverydayHealth: “Delicious propaganda: 12 fascinating food posters.”

June 11 Interview with Evan Kleiman, Good Food radio, on food guides and the new food plate (scroll down to find it).

June 8 Radio interview with Steve Boss on KRUU Great Taste on MyPlate, the German E. coli outbreak, and other issues.

June 3 Video interview with the irreverent Mo Rocca of CBS about the USDA’s new food plate.

June 2 Interview with Scientific American about the new USDA food icon

May 31  How healthy is vegetarianism?  The Big Think.

May 31  Vegetarianism vs. carnivorous diets.  The Big Think.

April 7  Interview with Modeled Behavior about food dyes

April 6 Radio interview with Caryn Hartglass on It’s All About Food

March 28  Time Magazine’s “140 Best Twitter Feeds” includes @marionnestle

March 28  Interview with Michael Moss on school food in Philadelphia.  I’m in the video.

March  NYU Alumni Magazine about the Fales food studies book collection

March 9  ABC Nightline on Heart Attack Grill

March 2  Melanie Warner BNet on my post about HFCS

March  Michael Moss’s Food Fight video

February 8 The editor of Scientific American, Mariette DiChristina, interviews me for a Google Science Fair project that I’m judging next summer.

February 1  Unexpected appearance on Colbert, about Walmart’s food initiatives (via ABC News clip)

January 20 NPR interview with Robert Siegel on All Things Considered about the Walmart announcement

January 20  ABC News interview about the Walmart announcement

2010

• November 19 Interview with Al Jazeera for a Fault Line program on “Fast food, fat profits: obesity in America (my 10 seconds starts at about minute 15).
• November 2  Interview with Dov Hirsh, Crop to Cuisine
• November 5  Interview with Burlington Free Press (note photo!)
• October 24  Heritage Radio with Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, and Joan Gussow
• October 5  Nobel Conference lecture at Gustavus Adolphus College, on food politics
• September 4 Interview with Helge Hellberg on An Organic Conversation.
• August 1 Interview with Guy Raz on NPR All Things Considered, on raw milk.
• August 13 Interview with Brian Lehrer on NPR about listeners’ meals
• July 15 Interview with Maria Rodale on Huffington Post
• July 9, 13 Annie Corrigan of Earth Eats did two interviews, part 1 on July 9 and part 2 on July 13.
• Summer 2010: Q and A with Donna Stokes, World Ark (Heifer International):10.
• July 3 Interview about food politics on the Kathleen Show.
• June 27 Heritage Radio  interview with Patrick Martins and Katy Kiefer.
• June 15 China Radio International.
• May 7 Fox and Friends interview about chocolate infant formula.
• April 3 Good Food interview with Evan Kleiman about agave.
• April 1: Interview with Katherine Hobson of U.S. News about the latest research on dietary fats.
• March 10 The Kathleen Show on food politics.
• March 6 Good Food interview with Evan Kleiman about soda taxes.
  March 3 CNN interview with Maggie Lake about organics
• February 22: Interview with Lori Bongiorno on Yahoo!Green about the safety of bagged salads.
• February 13 Food writers’ conference panel on academic food writing.
• February 26, 2010 Podcast of talk to the Girls Night Out series at the New York Academy of Sciences
• February 19: Interview about appearance at the Louisiana State University School of Public Health.
• January 20 Interview with NPR’s Takeaway on Mayor Bloomberg’s salt initiative.
• January 22 Interview with The Big Think.

2009

• April 13  Interview with Obama Foodorama about what the Obamas should feed their new puppy
• March 15  Chat with participants on Firedoglake Book Salon, hosted by Christy Hardin Smith
• March 12  Interview with Beth Bader on Green Options: Eat Drink Better, “Food safety: ask the expert”
• January 22   Interview with Lori Bongiorno on Yahoo! Green: “Eat safe food:  follow these tips
• January 19, 2009  Interview about food politics on Crop to Cuisine, Dov Hirsch, KVNU radio, Boulder CO
• May 24, 2009  Interview with Sound Medicine about high fructose corn syrup
• April 13, 2009 Interview with HearSay’s Cathy Lewis about food safety (with FDA’s David Acheson), WHRV-FM/WHRO Norfolk VA.
• August 6 ’09  CBS interview on Smart Choices program
• June ’09    Visit to the Brooklyn Food Coop with Joel Tomar Levin (scroll down to see video).
• June ’09 (possibly)  Office interview with Consumer (something unreadable) about current issues.  This is a copressed mp4 file.
• May 1, ’09  Video of lecture at Gel conference.<!–[endif]–>

2008

• November 23 Interview with Jane Brody, New York Times, about home cooking
• November 4Interview with Time magazine about the implications of the pet food recall for melamine in China
• October 17Interview with Adam Voiland of US News and World Report about 10 things the food industry doesn’t want you to know
• September 26Interview with Mother Jones, September/October 2008 issue
• September 16  Speech at Columbia University conference on Global Food Systems: Their Impact on Nutrition and Health for All on panel on Advanced Technologies, Food Safety and the Role of Local and Organic Food Production (video)
• August 26interview with Jonathan, who blogs at WastedFood.com.
• July 7, Interview with Jennifer Salerno about “green” food choices in the online version of Food and Wine.
• June 30 Interview with Claudette Vaughan on Abolitionist-Online about Food Politics.
• March 20 Interview with Amy Ramos in Miller-McCune magazine.
• March 12 Interview with Adriana Velez on www.foodbuzz.com.
• January 20, 2008 Interview with Lori Dorfman in the January issue of Health Promotion Practice.
• February 12 Kansas City: Kansas City Healthy Kids conference (keynote slide presentation)
• Women’s and Gender Studies Programs (lecture) See Toledo Blade account
• March 5 Santa Barbara, Q and A with Morgan Spurlock, Orfalea Fund Conference on school food
• Memorial lecture. See interview in Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
• April 4 Wesleyan, CT, Shasha seminar for human concerns (keynote–and here are the Wesleyan slides)
• June 3 Copenhagen, Nordic Nutrition Conference (plenary). Here’s the pdf of my slides. And the lecture is posted on Morten Strunge Meyers’ blog site as well as on YouTube.
• June 5 NYU, Fales library panel on bottled water. See report from panelist Maureen Clancy. These sessions usually are videorecorded.
• August 26 Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, 595 Market, 2nd Floor, book interview with Davia Nelson, Kitchen Sisters (5:30 p.m.)
• August 30 Slow Food Nation, San Francisco, panel on Building a New Food System: Policy and Planning (scroll down to get to video for this panel)
• November 14 New York, Food Theater Project with Anna Lappe. This follows a performance of Milk n’ Honey at the Lightbox, 80 Greenwich at Rector. And here’s a photo from the event.
• November 12 Panel discussion on the farm bill, Wagner School of Public Service, Puck Building (Lafayette at Houston), 2nd floor. Here is Wild Green Yonder’s take on it.
• March 7, 2008  Homeland Security Daily Wire, Interview about food safety
• February 6, 2008  Biologique Foods radio, two podcast interviews with TJ Harrington in Bloomington, MN, one on food politics and the other on what’s in your food.
• September 24, 2008Interview with Public Radio International on food safety (melamine and Chinese infant formula)
• September 22, 2008 Interview on WBUR Here and Now, Boston, on food safety
  July 1, 2008 Interview with All Things Considered on NPR about New York City’s trans-fat ban.
• January 16, 2008  Radio interview: Dynamic Health” host Allart, Vancouver, B.C.’s Co-op Radio, CFRO 102.7 FM.
• CNN broadcast of “Fed Up: America’s Killer Diet“.  The transcript is also online 11/29/08
• Interview with Laura Flinders (and Arun Gupta and Peter Hoffman), Grit TV. It’s on how to eat well without going broke, and starts with a Monty Python clip on Spam 11/26/08
• Interview with Meet the Bloggers about food politics (done via computer camera) 11/21/08
• Video interview with CBS about the effects of the economic downturn on food choices 11/20/08
• CBS News interview about high fructose corn syrup 10/2/08
• Video interview (snippets) with CBS5, KPIX on melamine in Chinese infant formula 9/29/08
• CBS Evening News interview on genetically modified food labeling, Figuring Out What’s In Your Food 5/11/08

2007

• Interview with my avatar on food issues with Jimbo Hoyer on Second Life 10/11/07
• Interview with Marion Nestle by Shahar Smooha (in Hebrew). Also in English translation.  Haaretz 9/23/07
• Web MD interview about organic choices 8/10/07
• Food Industry magazine (Netherlands): Interview with Lucien Joppen (in English) 8/07
• Claims Are Like Pandora’s Box Elsevier Voedingsmiddelen Industrie (http://www.evmi.nl/) 8/07
• Why Are We Fat? The Courier Journal 4/11/07
• Marion Nestle: The Nutrition Guru Culinate 3/27/07
• Nutrition Expert to Speak Tonight at Ithaca College The Ithaca Journal 3/27/07
• The Basics; For Cats and Dogs, Life Is a Bowl Of The New York Times 3/25/07
• Wellness Warriors Take Action Nation’s Restaurant News 1/29/07
• Food Critic meatingplace magazine 1/07
• December 12, 2007radio interview HealthTalk Live: How safe is our food? (click on December 12 entry)
• September 15, 2007 Dishing Up Nutrition radio interview on food politics (interviewer is Darlene Kvist).
• September 6, 2007 Canadian Broadcasting Corp:CBC Calling. Interview with Chef Michael Smith.
• September 5, 2007 Scientific American Podcast with Steve Mirsky. Because I am a Paulette Goddard professor at NYU, he sends along an article he wrote about Einstein’s experience with the gorgeous movie star.
• NPR Science Friday, panel on the farm bill with Michael Pollan and Sandor Ellix Katz 8/10/07
• Global Public Radio,Wake Up America interview with Tina Volpe  8/13/07
• Splendid Table radio interview 6/9/07
• Is Feeding a Family on Food Stamps Feasible? Weekend Edition, National Public Radio 5/19/07
• Charlie Rose science series: obesity and nutrition (with Paul Nurse, David Ludwig, Rudy Leibel, and Gina Kolata) 6/25/07
• Google staff lecture, Mountain View, CA. (see hour-long Video or 8-minute edit on YouTube) 5/8/07
• What to Eat: Personal Responsibility versus Social Responsibility University of Kentucky 3/13/07
• How to Buy Green Produce TreeHuggerTV.com 1/17/07

2006

• Dålig Kost en Politisk Fråga (Swedish) Svenska Dagbladet 11/25/06
• Sorting Through the Confusion in a Bag of Spinach Newsday.com 10/4/06
• Supermarket sleuth.  Interview with Katharine Mieszkowski of Salon.com, 6-12-06
• Conversation with Marion Nestle DefendingScience.org 5/12/06
• Interview with Marion Nestle PotreroHillParents.org 5/12/06
• The Skinny on Organic Food AARP Bulletin 5/06
• The Politics of Obesity: Interview with Dr Nestle Cambridge Medicine 2006
• Fighting the Battle of the Bulge Rotman Magazine Winter 2006
• E. Coli Outbreak Was Wake-Up Call for Food Safety Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio 10/23/06
• When To Go Organic The Intelligent Body 9/25/06
• Nutritionist Tackles Serious Business of ‘What to Eat’ All Things Considered 6/9/06
• Food Democracy and Healthy Choices: An Interview with Marion Nestle Bioneers 2006
• How to Find Green Fish TreeHuggerTV.com 9/26/06
• Interview with Charlie Rose about What to Eat 7/13/06
• How to Buy Green Milk TreeHuggerTV.com 7/10/06
• Marion Nestle Discusses What to Eat AOL: Diet & Fitness Coach 2006
• Town Hall Meeting Webcast Berkeley 4/13/06

2001 to 2005

• Manger: Simplicité et Modération d’Abord! Réseau Proteus 6/05
• James Beard: A 20th Century Revolution in American Foods The Food Section 5/10/05
• Under Fire The Leonard Lopate Show, National Public Radio 1/18/05
• The Politics of Obesity Prevention: Personal Responsibility versus Public Health The University of Minnesota School of Public Health 9/18/04
• The Politics of Food and Nutrition UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine 2/8/04
• Featured in the award winning documentary Super Size Me: Think about how food is marketed, , How much influence does the food industry have on government?
• Food Politics Q&A with Marion Nestle University of California School of Public Health Spring 2004
• Frontline: Diet Wars PBS 4/8/04
• Fast Food Nation The Leonard Lopate Show, National Public Radio 5/4/04
• Marion Nestle on Obesity: “Industry Talks but Doesn’t Walk” Food Engineering & Ingredients 4/04
• Panel discussion with Michael Pollan, Joan Gussow, and Kelly Brownell at UC Berkeley (video), 11/19/03
• Snapple Beware: She’s the Gadfly in the Food Industry’s Soup The New York Observer 9/29/03
• Nutrigenomics Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio 12/26/03
• Mad Cow Disease Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio 12/26/03
• USDA to Revamp Food Pyramid All Things Considered, National Public Radio 9/11/03
• Sugar Industry Takes on the World Health Organization Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio 4/24/03
• Check Your Labels The Leonard Lopate Show, National Public Radio 4/22/03
• Food Politics Raises Provocative Questions Food Chemical News 5/20/02
• An ‘Eat More’ Message for a Fattened America The New York Times 2/19/02
• Chewing Out the Food Industry Fortune Magazine 2/18/02
• Complicating the Simple Message of ‘Eat Less’ Nutrition Week 2/18/02

  The Politics of Food: The Food Industry Spends $33 Billion in Advertising This Year, While Over One Quarter of U.S. Adults Are Obese Democracy Now 7/26/02

• The Politics Behind an Overweight America: Talking with Dr. Marion Nestle GlobalRPh.com 8/21/01

1993

Brief clip from interview with David Rosengarten and Donna Hanover on the TV Food Network

Controversies

The Amazon.com Debate:

• Sheldon Rampton’s review – Amazon.com 2/27/02
• Three anonymous reviews posted 2/22/02
• Steven Milloy review: “New Nutrition Book Choking on Bad Science” – Fox News.com 2/22/02

The Threatened Lawsuit from the Sugar Association of America:

• Letter from the Sugar Association Attorney – Sugar Association 3/27/02
• Response to the Sugar Association – Marion Nestle 4/5/02

The Consumer-Choice Debate

• Lions And Bulls And Bears, Oh My – ConsumerFreedom.com 3/15/07
• Are you responsible for your own weight? Balko R.  Pro: Absolutely.  Government has no business interfering with what you eat.  Brownell K, Nestle M.  Con: Not if Blaming the Victim Is Just an Excuse to Let Industry off the Hook.   Time June 7, 2004:113.
• Behind the “Obesity Epidemic” (Part Two of Two) – ConsumerFreedom.com 4/18/02
• The Big Food Tax – National Review 4/3/02