These medicines are hiding in your spice rack | Kanchan Koya & Dr. Sarah Berry

Learn how your body responds to food. Take our FREE quiz 👉 http://zoe.com/podcast In today’s episode we’re uncovering the medicines that are hiding in your kitchen. Molecular biologist Kanchan Koya joins Jonathan and Sarah to explore the incredible health benefits of spices. From controlling blood sugar to soothing a sore throat, we’ll discover what the latest research says about household favourites including ginger, cinnamon and cloves. Kanchan Koya is a food scientist, founder of the spice-centric food blog Chief Spice Mama and author of the cookbook ‘100 Recipes with Healing Spices for your Family Table’. She will show us how to get the most out of spices, with simple cooking tips and delicious recipes. Want to make Kanchan’s show stopper spice dish? Find the recipe here: https://www.laboiteny.com/blogs/recipes/tandoori-caulifower Follow ZOE on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zoe Timecodes: 00:00 Introduction 01:26 Quick fire questions 03:39 What are spices? 04:10 Polyphenols in spices 07:47 Spices and health 11:35 Cinnamon and blood sugar control 15:40 Anti-inflammatory benefits of spices 21:56 A practical guide to using spices 25:46 Introduction to Kanchan’s dabba 33:48 Reviving old spices 35:40 The wonders of ginger: from morning sickness to gut health 38:30 Spiced cooking tips 40:17 Breakfast ideas: add spices to start your day 42:09 Creative ways to incorporate spices into snacks 44:44 Dinner delights: spicing up main meals 46:30 Spices for kids 48:47 Spiced drinks: from chai to golden milk 50:28 The ultimate spice dish Studies related to today’s episode: Safety and efficacy of curcumin versus diclofenac in knee osteoarthritis: a randomized open-label parallel-arm study, from Trials. Link: https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-019-3327-2 Analgesic effect of the aqueous and ethanolic extracts of clove, from Avicenna Journal of Phytomedicine. Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4075701/ Effect of cinnamon spice on continuously monitored glycemic response in adults with prediabetes, from The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000291652400008X Star anise (Illicium verum): Chemical compounds, antiviral properties, and clinical relevance, from Phytotherapy Research. Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31997473/ Ginger-Mechanism of action in chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, from Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25848702/ Is there a nutrition topic you’d like us to explore? Fill in this form, and we’ll do our best to cover it: https://gf6hx47iu5g.typeform.com/topicsuggestion Episode transcripts are available here https://joinzoe.com/learn/category/nutrition/podcast