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Wudan Yan

Oct 16, 2026

7:57
In this case, it's not that the food itself is entirely fake, but there could be fraudulent elements within the food itself, right?
8:04
Correct.
8:05
So for instance, olive oil is a great example.
8:09
People can make a lot of money by claiming that something is 100% extra virgin olive oil imported from the Mediterranean, right? It wouldn't sound so good if it was like 70% extra virgin olive oil.
8:23
And in the case of turmeric, there's a bias in how people want the color of that particular spice to look.
8:29
They want it to be that golden hue in the same way that it's been promoted in like wellness trends and turmeric lattes and so on and so forth.
8:40
And in South Asian countries, the brighter the turmeric, the better.
13:04
Well, I wondered if you could read a little bit from the opening of the story, and then we could talk through some of the aspects of the reporting and the fact-checking.

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