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Sep 10, 2026
Happy 90th Birthday, Marion Nestle! Plus: How a Cereal Company Broke the FDA
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5:05Kate BittmanHOST
And you can hear about how she and Marion got together.
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5:08Mark BittmanHOST
Not to carry on, but Kellogg did start as a health food company, as Marion will report, and Walmart is not exactly the evil empire.
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5:17Mark BittmanHOST
I would maintain not exactly the evil empire.
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5:20Mark BittmanHOST
Largest retailer of organic food in the United States, for what it's worth.
16 MINS LATER
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21:35Mark BittmanHOST
... question too.
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21:36Mark BittmanHOST
It's like, isn't cereal the kind of... breakfast cereal the kind of platonic ideal of an ultra-processed food?
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21:44Marion NestleGUEST
In some ways, it started out as a health food.
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21:47Marion NestleGUEST
You know, and the history of these things is so incredible because Kellogg ran this, um, Seventh-day Adventist influenced sanitarium in Battle Creek, um, where he fed everybody, uh, whole grain cereals.
#265: Marion Nestle on Food Politics and the Cereal Aisle
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25:30Marian NestleGUEST
They try.
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25:31Marian NestleGUEST
And what I would call the health food brands, which are using clean ingredients and not adding sugar.
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25:39Marian NestleGUEST
Some of them are better than others.
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25:41Marian NestleGUEST
You have to read the ingredient lists very, very carefully to make sure they're not putting in allulose or artificial sweeteners of one kind or another.