The truth about organic food - according to science | Tim Spector

🥑 Make smarter food choices. Become a member at https://zoe.com Get 10% off membership with code PODCAST What does "organic" food mean? And how do you know if something's organic? Of course, foods tell you if they're organic in massive letters on the packaging. And they cost way more. But what makes food organic? Is eating organic better for your health? And are the benefits worth the expense? Luckily, Professor Tim Spector is here today with answers. Tim is one of the world's top 100 most cited scientists, a scientific co-founder of ZOE, and the author of the bestselling book Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well. Stick around until the end, and you'll also find out the answer to a question we get often: Does Tim eat organic? Get science-based nutrition advice straight to your inbox: https://bit.ly/46BPTYz Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:21- Quickfire round 01:21 - What is organic food? 01:52 - Pesticides vs insecticides 06:56 - Diseases 09:15 - Herbicide risks 14:51 - Nutrient comparison 18:06 - Natural chemical defenses 19:05 - Does Tim Eat Organic Food? 20:44 - Foods high in chemicals 24:08 - Organic and cost 24:47 - Washing food 29:14 - Summary and Outro Books: - Every Body Should Know This by Dr Federica Amati: https://amzn.to/4blJsLg - Food For Life by Prof. Tim Spector: https://amzn.to/4amZinu Studies mentioned: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4007233/ Organic food consumption and the incidence of cancer in a large prospective study of women in the United Kingdom from the British Journal of Cancer https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2707948 Association of frequency of organic food consumption with cancer risk from JAMA Internal Medicine https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-022-00860-0 Impacts of dietary exposure to pesticides on faecal microbiome metabolism in adult twins from Environmental Health Journal Follow ZOE on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zoe/ Episode transcripts are available here: https://joinzoe.com/learn/category/nutrition/podcast Is there a nutrition topic you’d like us to cover? Email us at [email protected] and we’ll do our best to cover it.