#99 The Olive Oil Episode with Dr Simon Poole
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
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The Cough Story
Plants are very smart, so they produce polyvinals with colours. They also produce polypenals that are quite bitter because at certain stages of the fruit develop,. And so those bitter polypenals will then gradually subside as the fruits ready to be eaten by a passing mammal. The ability of polypenos to make er a bitter taste and also to make you cough, is something that discovered by a scientist called garry beecham in philadelphia. He was researching a cough medicine that was produced by one of the big pharmoceudical companies. It's crucial about polyphenals and the way in which they they probably help and support our our health.
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