Do You Know What You’re Eating?

你知道自己在吃什么吗?

The Forum

社会与文化

2016-07-18

40 分钟
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If you think of your favourite foods – chocolate, maybe, or samosas, or pizza – do you really know where all the ingredients came from? Bridget Kendall asks the food scientist Chris Elliott, the software designer Jérôme Malavoy and the food labelling expert Monique Raats. Photo: The food label on a box of brownies (Getty Images)
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  • Think back to the last food you ate.

  • Do you really know what was in it and where all the ingredients came from?

  • Even if it looked natural and wholesome,

  • it may have come from multiple sources and traveled a very long journey to your plate.

  • And sometimes the labelling on the packet is more confusing than helpful.

  • So is it possible to have more transparency about the food and drink we consume?

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  • My guests today are the Irish director of the Institute of Global Food Security,

  • Chris Elliott, who's developed pioneering new techniques to trace contaminants in food.

  • The French software designer, Jérôme Malavoy,