Bitter Is Sweet For Your Health

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Jon and Greg discuss a 2013 New York Times opinion piece by Jo Robinson called "Breeding the Nutrition Out of Our Food," which compares the phytonutrient content of wild plants with that of supermarket produce. As farmers select the starchiest, sweetest varieties of vegetables to grow and sell, crucial nutrients that help prevent degenerative diseases - nutrients which often are marked by bitterness or sourness -  have been bred right out of them. 

(Broadcast: "The Food Guys," 11/23/14. Listen weekly on the radio at 11:50 a.m. Sundays, or via podcast.)

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Beth Anne Austein has been spinning tunes on the air (The Folk Show, Dancing With Tradition, Freeforms), as well as recording, editing and mixing audio for Montana Public Radio and Montana PBS, since the Clinton Administration. She’s jockeyed faders or "fixed it in post” for The Plant Detective; Listeners Bookstall; Fieldnotes; Musicians Spotlight; The Write Question; Storycorps; Selected Shorts; Bill Raoul’s music series; orchestral and chamber concerts; lecture series; news interviews; and outside producers’ programs about topics ranging from philosophy to ticks.